# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-rieff
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:26:14.864Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-rieff"
name: "Philip Rieff"
slug: "philip-rieff"
description: "Philip Rieff was an American sociologist and cultural critic, best known for his early-career work on Sigmund Freud and later criticisms of modern culture. He taught sociology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1961 until 1992 after briefer positions at the University of Chicago, Brandeis University, and the University of California, Berkeley. He was the author of a number of books on Sigmund Freud and his legacy, including Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (1959) and The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud (1966)."
tagline: "American sociologist (1922–2006)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1922-12-15"
deathDate: "2006-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.23
  momentum:             0.2931596091205211
  historical:           6.231397333333334
  currentAttention:     1.628664495114006
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "فيليب ريف (عالم اجتماع من امريكا)"
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    title: "Philip Rieff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Rieff"
    title: "Philip Rieff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%BE_%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%81"
    title: "فیلیپ ریف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A4_%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A3"
    title: "פיליפ ריף"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AB%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%AB%E0%B5%8D"
    title: "ഫിലിപ്പ് റീഫ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7184285"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump