Review Essay: Commanding Truths.

SOCIAL sciences education; CULTURAL studies; SOCIOLOGY; COMMUNISM & culture; COMMUNISM & society; FASCISM & culture; FASCISM; ZONDERVAN, Antonius A. W.; RIEFF, Philip; EDUCATION

The article presents a review of the essays "My Life Among the Deathworks: Illustrations of the Aesthetics of Authority," by Philip Rieff and "Sociology and the Sacred: An Introduction to Philip Rieff's Theory of Culture," by Antonius A. W. Zondervan. These essays are about the study on social sciences and the modern society. The essay by Rieff is about the extraordinary diagnosis on the "pneumopathology" of the modern society. According to the author, these types of literatures define the obvious barbaric actions of German fascism and Soviet communism.