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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, where he met Susan Sontag.
Jul 10, 2006 · Philip Rieff has died at age 83, in Philadelphia. We never met, but he would write from time to time, usually a brief note on something or the other that appeared in First Things .
Jul 4, 2006 · Philip Rieff, an influential sociologist, author and cultural critic who wrote well-known books on the impact of Sigmund Freud on society and on the direction of morality and Western culture, died...
Jul 5, 2006 · Sociologist Philip Rieff, who wrote erudite analyses of cultural decline and was known in particular for his critiques of Sigmund Freud, died Saturday at his Philadelphia home after a long...
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Jul 21, 2006 · My mentor, Philip Rieff — sociologist, cultural critic, pre-eminent interpreter of Freud and his impact on Western culture — died this month.
Dec 15, 2022 · In his 1973 essay Fellow Teachers: Of Culture and Its Second Death, Rieff gave what was, ostensibly, a jeremiad against American society and education, their new “democratic” and “tolerant ...
Jul 6, 2006 · Sociologist Philip Rieff — who wrote erudite analyses of cultural decline and was known for his critiques of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud — died Saturday at his Philadelphia home after a long...
