Philip Rieff (1922-2006), Benjamin Franklin Professor of Sociology and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, was the author of the classic works Freud: The 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. Arnold M. Eisen is Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and is a leading scholar of contemporary Judaism. Gideon Lewis-Kraus is a critic and journalist who has written for Slate, Bookforum, and the New York Times Book Review.

My Life among the Deathworks is a hauntingly beautiful blend of poetry, ethical inquiry, and lament. - New Republic ""Rieff is one of the most important philosophers in America. He has grasped with both hands the most important problem facing Western civilization and throttles it into submission. Anyone at all concerned with joining him... must read this book."" - Weekly Standard

Philip Rieff (1922-2006), Benjamin Franklin Professor of Sociology and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, was the author of the classic works Freud: The 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. Arnold M. Eisen is Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and is a leading scholar of contemporary Judaism. Gideon Lewis-Kraus is a critic and journalist who has written for Slate, Bookforum, and the New York Times Book Review.

My Life among the Deathworks is a hauntingly beautiful blend of poetry, ethical inquiry, and lament. - New Republic ""Rieff is one of the most important philosophers in America. He has grasped with both hands the most important problem facing Western civilization and throttles it into submission. Anyone at all concerned with joining him... must read this book."" - Weekly Standard

Philip Rieff (1922-2006), Benjamin Franklin Professor of Sociology and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, was the author of the classic works Freud: The 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. Arnold M. Eisen is Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and is a leading scholar of contemporary Judaism. Gideon Lewis-Kraus is a critic and journalist who has written for Slate, Bookforum, and the New York Times Book Review.

My Life among the Deathworks is a hauntingly beautiful blend of poetry, ethical inquiry, and lament. - New Republic ""Rieff is one of the most important philosophers in America. He has grasped with both hands the most important problem facing Western civilization and throttles it into submission. Anyone at all concerned with joining him... must read this book."" - Weekly Standard