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David Rieff (/ ˈ r iː f /; born September 28, 1952) is an American nonfiction writer and policy analyst. His books have focused on issues of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism.
Jun 10, 2016 · Rieff makes a powerful case for reconciliation and compromise, and exposes how politicized our nationalist histories are.
Author David Rieff is a New York-based writer and policy analyst who has written extensively about humanitarian aid and human rights. He is the author of eight books, including A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis and At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention, and...
In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies is a 2016 non-fiction book by David Rieff, published by Yale University Press.
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Rieff es el único hijo de Susan Sontag, que tenía 19 años cuando nació. Su padre, de quien Sontag se divorció, era Philip Rieff, autor de Freud: La mente del moralista. Rieff se educó en el Lycée Français de New York y asistió al Amherst College como miembro de la promoción de 1974, donde estudió con Benjamin DeMott. Completó la universidad en la ...
Rieff fue editor sénior en Farrar, Straus and Giroux de 1978 a 1989. Rieff ha sido en varias ocasiones miembro sénior en el Instituto de Política Mundial en la Nueva Escuela de Investigación Social, miembro del Instituto de Humanidades de Nueva York en la Universidad de Nueva York, miembro de la junta de la División de Armas de Human Rights Watc...
Peter Rose, al revisar el libro de Rieff de 2008 Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir, lo compara favorablemente con A Very Easy Death de 1964 de Simone de Beauvoir; considera a este último "quizás la mejor de las memorias filiales". G. John Ikenberry, en una reseña del libro de Rieff de 2005 At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Arme...
Texas Boots(with Sharon Delano) (Studio/Penguin, 1981)Going to Miami: Tourists, Exiles and Refugees in the New America(Little, Brown, 1987)Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World(Simon & Schuster, 1991)The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami(Simon & Schuster, 1993)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.
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May 13, 2016 · In his new book, In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies, journalist David Rieff questions the idea that remembering the past is an inherently virtuous practice that will...
