About the Author

Philip Rieff, Benjamin Franklin Professor of Sociology and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, is author of the classic works Freud; Mind of the Moralist, The Triumph of the Therapeutic, and Fellow Teachers and the editor of The Collected Papers of Sigmund Freud. Kenneth S. Piver is a psychiatrist in private practice in San Diego, California. James Davison Hunter is La Brosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor in Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia.

Reviews

My Life Among the Deathworks is a hauntingly beautiful blend of poetry, ethical inquiry, and lament....Rieff ushers the reader into a world in which ideas and issues long age deemed im portant suddenly matter again.--The New Republic