Philip Rieff

 ( Rieff, Phillip ) 

Philip Rieff (December 15, 1922 – July 1, 2006) was an American sociologist and cultural critic, who taught sociology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1961 until 1992, and also, during the 1950s, at the University of Chicago.

He was the author of a number of books on Sigmund Freud and his legacy, including (1959) and The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud (1966).

At the University of Chicago, he married his 17-year-old student Susan Sontag after 10 days of courtship in the 1950s. The marriage lasted eight years. Sontag and Rieff had a son together, David Rieff, a writer and the editor of his mother's personal journals.Glenn, David. "Prophet of the 'Anti-Culture', Chronicle of Higher Education, November 11, 2005; courtesy link, accessed December 11, 2010. Rieff's second wife and widow, Alison Douglas Knox, died December 12, 2011.

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• 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.

• 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.

• Beer, Jeremy. Pieties of Silence, The American Conservative
• Philip Rieff correspondence at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries