Philip Rieff
American sociologist
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- PhD Sociology University of Chicago
- Masters Sociology University of Chicago
- Bachelors Sociology University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Philip Rieff 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. He was the author of a number of books on Sigmund Freud and his legacy, including Freud: The Mind of the Moralist and The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud . 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. His second wife and widow Alison Douglas Knox died December 12, 2011.
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- The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud (1966) (575)
- Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siecle Culture. (1988) (507)
- The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology. (1960) (271)
- Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (1959) (226)
- Sexuality and the psychology of love (1963) (204)
- Three Case Histories (1963) (101)
- The sexual enlightenment of children (1963) (68)
- Therapy and Technique (1963) (65)
- Charisma: The Gift of Grace, and How It Has Been Taken Away from Us (2007) (37)
- General psychology theory : papers on Metapsychology (1963) (34)
- On intellectuals : theoretical studies, case studies (1970) (25)
- The feeling intellect : selected writings (1991) (21)
- The feeling intellect (1990) (18)
- Studies in Parapsychology (1985) (18)
- From Clergyman to Don: The Rise of the Academic Profession in Nineteenth- Century Oxford. (1985) (17)
- Fellow teachers/of culture and its second death (1985) (16)
- Sacred Order/Social Order: My Life Among the Deathworks: Illustrations of the Aesthetics of Authority (2006) (15)
- The Meaning of History and Religion in Freud's Thought (1951) (11)
- The Theology of Politics: Reflections on Totalitarianism as the Burden of Our Time (A Review Article) (1952) (9)
- History, Psychoanalysis, and the Social Sciences (1953) (8)
- Early Psychoanalytic Writings (1963) (8)
- The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Volume III: The Last Phase (1919-1939). (1958) (8)
- The Origins of Freud's Political Psychology (1956) (7)
- Religion and the Face of America (1960) (6)
- Aesthetic Functions in Modern Politics (1953) (4)
- The Social Question: Philosophical and Sociological Foundations of Marxism. (1974) (3)
- Treatment of the neuroses : psychotherapy from rest cure to psychoanalysis (1963) (3)
- The Newer Noises of War in the Second Culture Camp: Notes on Professor Burt's Legal Fictions (1991) (3)
- Freudian Ethics and the Idea of Reason (1957) (2)
- European Positivism in the Nineteenth Century, An Essay in Intellectual History. (1965) (1)
- 14 points on Wilson. (1967) (1)
- Book Review:Understanding the Sick and the Healthy: A View of World, Man and God Franz Rosenzweig (1955) (1)
- Sacred Order/Social Order: The Jew of Culture: Freud, Moses, and Modernity (2008) (1)
- From Humanism to Nihilism: The Eclipse of Secular Ethics (2012) (0)
- John T. McNeill, A History of the Cure of Souls . New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951, xii and 371 pp. $5. (1953) (0)
- Psychology and Politics: The Freudian Connection (1955) (0)
- Reflections on psychological man in America before Freud and after. (1960) (0)
- The Function of the Social Sciences and Humanities in a Science Curriculum (1959) (0)
- The Fusion of Psychiatry and Social Science. By Harry Stack Sullivan. With Introduction and Commentaries by Helen Swick Perry. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1964. 346 pp. $7.50 (1966) (0)
- The Life and Death of Death@@@Images of Man and Death. (1986) (0)
- T. SCOTT MIYAKAWA. Protestants and Pioneers: Individualism and Conformity on the American Frontier. Pp. 306. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964. $7.50 (1965) (0)
- Moral Choices in Contemporary Society: Newspaper Articles for the Sixth Course by Newspaper. (1977) (0)
- Book Review:Marsilius of Padua, the Defender of Peace, Vol. I: Marsilius of Padua and Medieval Political Philosophy Alan Gewirth (1953) (0)
- The Culture of Unbelief. (1972) (0)
- Lust for Power. Joseph Haroutunian (1951) (0)
- Book Review:Marsilius of Padua, the Defender of Peace, Vol. II: The Defensor pacis Alan Gewirth (1958) (0)
- Moral Choices in Contemporary Society: A Courses by Newspaper Reader. (1977) (0)
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