Love's Body
by Norman O. Brown
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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.Tags
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An apocalyptic prose poem by a distinguished classics professor, who, after reading Freud and Blake, went on to become a countercultural icon in the 1960s.
this book is difficult to review -- a bunch of excerpts from other books, you have to read it to understand. Norman O Brown was a brilliant grumpy old man who probably singlehandedly changed the way a lot of people think about culture. definitely not standard issue mainstream stuff.
Eat your heart out, Deleuze and Guattari.
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1966
- Blurbers
- Fremont-Smith, Eliot; Green, Martin; Keen, Sam; Friedenberg, Edgar Z.
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Philosophy, General Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
- DDC/MDS
- 150.19 — Philosophy & psychology Psychology Emotions, Relationships, & Family Theory And Instruction Systems, schools, viewpoints
- LCC
- BF175 .B72 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Psychology Psychology Psychoanalysis
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- Members
- 284
- Popularity
- 113,772
- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (4.11)
- Languages
- English, German, Italian, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 10
- ASINs
- 6
