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Norman Oliver Brown

    25 septembre 1913 – 2 octobre 2002

    Norman Oliver Brown fut un classiciste américain réputé pour ses traductions et ses commentaires éclairés des œuvres d'Hésiode. Élève distingué de Carl Schorske et Isaiah Berlin, sa carrière universitaire l'a vu enseigner les études classiques dans des institutions prestigieuses telles que la Wesleyan University, l'Université de Rochester et l'UC-Santa Cruz. Son érudition a éclairé les textes de la Grèce antique pour une nouvelle génération d'étudiants et d'universitaires.

    Life Against Death
    Life against death the psychoanalytical meaning of history
    Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis
    Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition
    Love's Body
    • Originally published in 1966 and now recognized as a classic, Norman O. Brown's meditation on the condition of humanity and its long fall from the grace of a natural, instinctual innocence is available once more for a new generation of readers. Love's Body is a continuation of the explorations begun in Brown's famous Life Against Death . Rounding out the trilogy is Brown's brilliant Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis .

      Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition
    • Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis

      • 250pages
      • 9 heures de lecture
      4,1(42)Évaluer

      Part of a trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature, this book contains eleven essays that covers 1990 and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe.

      Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis