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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Philip Rieff (December 15, 1922 – July 1, 2006) was an American sociologist and
cultural critic, who taught sociology at the University of Pennsylvaniafrom 1961 until
1992, and also, during the 1950s, at the University of Chicago, where he met Susan
Sontag. He was the author of a number of books on Sigmund Freud and his legacy,
including Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (1959) and The Triumph of the Therapeutic:
Uses of Faith after Freud (1966). He married his 17-year-old student Susan
Sontag after 10 days of courtship in the 1950s. The marriage lasted eight years during
which their son, David Rieff—a writer and editor of his mother's personal journals—was
born.[1] His second wife and widow Alison Douglas Knox died December 12, 2011.[2]
Works
• Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, 1959.
• Collected Papers of Sigmund Freud (ed.). Collier Books, 1963.
• The Triumph of the Therapeutic. Harper & Row, 1966.
• Fellow Teachers. Harper & Row, 1973.
• The Feeling Intellect. University of Chicago Press, 1990.
• My Life Among the Deathworks. University of Virginia Press, 2006.
 • Charisma. Pantheon, 2007.
• The Crisis of the Officer Class. University of Virginia Press, 2007.
• The Jew of Culture. University of Virginia Press, 2008.
Notes
1. Glenn, David. "Prophet of the 'Anti-Culture', Chronicle of Higher Education, November 11,
2005; courtesy link, accessed December 11, 2010.
2. "Paid Notice: Deaths KNOX, ALISON DOUGLAS".

Further reading
• Aeschliman, M.D., “The Aesthetics of Moloch,” National Review, 17 July 2006, 41–2.
• Imber, Jonathan B. (ed.). Therapeutic Culture: Triumph and Defeat. Transaction, 2004.
• Manning, Philip. Freud and American Sociology. Polity Press, 2005.
• Zondervan, A. A. W. Sociology and the Sacred. An Introduction to Philip Rieff's Theory of Culture.
University of Toronto Press, 2005.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Philip Rieff (December 15, 1922 – July 1, 2006) was an American sociologist and
cultural critic, who taught sociology at the University of Pennsylvaniafrom 1961 until
1992, and also, during the 1950s, at the University of Chicago, where he met Susan
Sontag. He was the author of a number of books on Sigmund Freud and his legacy,
including Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (1959) and The Triumph of the Therapeutic:
Uses of Faith after Freud (1966). He married his 17-year-old student Susan
Sontag after 10 days of courtship in the 1950s. The marriage lasted eight years during
which their son, David Rieff—a writer and editor of his mother's personal journals—was
born.[1] His second wife and widow Alison Douglas Knox died December 12, 2011.[2]
 Works
• Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, 1959.
• Collected Papers of Sigmund Freud (ed.). Collier Books, 1963.
• The Triumph of the Therapeutic. Harper & Row, 1966.
• Fellow Teachers. Harper & Row, 1973.
• The Feeling Intellect. University of Chicago Press, 1990.
• My Life Among the Deathworks. University of Virginia Press, 2006.
• Charisma. Pantheon, 2007.
• The Crisis of the Officer Class. University of Virginia Press, 2007.
• The Jew of Culture. University of Virginia Press, 2008.
Notes
1. Glenn, David. "Prophet of the 'Anti-Culture', Chronicle of Higher Education, November 11,
2005; courtesy link, accessed December 11, 2010.
2. "Paid Notice: Deaths KNOX, ALISON DOUGLAS".

Further reading
• Aeschliman, M.D., “The Aesthetics of Moloch,” National Review, 17 July 2006, 41–2.
• Imber, Jonathan B. (ed.). Therapeutic Culture: Triumph and Defeat. Transaction, 2004.
• Manning, Philip. Freud and American Sociology. Polity Press, 2005.
• Zondervan, A. A. W. Sociology and the Sacred. An Introduction to Philip Rieff's Theory of Culture.
University of Toronto Press, 2005.

External links

Wikiquote has quotations related to Philip Rieff.

• Beer, Jeremy. Pieties of Silence, The American Conservative

• Philip Rieff correspondence at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Authority control databases

• FAST
• ISNI
ional
• VIAF
• WorldCat

• Norway
ional • France
• BnF data
 • Catalonia
• Germany
• Israel
• Belgium
• United States
• Latvia
• Japan
• Czech Republic
• Netherlands
• Poland

eople • Deutsche Biographie

• SNAC
Other
• IdRef