...Daniel T. O'Hara The essay examines two interrelated questions with respect to the work and career of Philip Rieff: (1) why does the career have the anomalous shape that it does, and (2) does this situation have anything to do with the claim throughout Rieff's work, but especially in his last work...

... The unique distinc- tion of the imagination for Vico, and more importantly for Brown, is that it is the faculty through which the early or primitive peoples conceived the world and gave it linguistic, or rather symbolic, shape and meaning. This leads to 5. Norman O. Brown, ‘‘Rieff’s ‘Fellow Teachers...