This book is a study of the life and work of Philip Rieff (1922-2006). It focuses on his contributions to social and cultural studies, to reactionary apocalyptics, psycho-theology, and to Jewish philosophy.

The book deals with contemporary French philosophy from Bataille to Derrida (Sartre, Aron, Levinas, Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard etc.).

The questions the writer Samuel Beckett posed in his dramas, his prose and his poetry are the central questions asked by the most outstanding thinkers of modernity. This study is not only a precise literary analysis, but it also traces transformations in terms of subjectivity and tries to conceptualize them.

The book deals with the history of Russian philosophy and ideas from the Enlightenment to the religious-philosophical renaissance of the first decade of the 20th century. It provides readers with an exhaustive account of relationships between various Russian thinkers and an examination of how those thinkers relate to a number of figures and trends.