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.
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"Love's Body is a modern Thus Spake Zarathustra. Professor Brown is affiliating himself to a major line of nineteenth- and twentieth-century prophets, such as Nietzsche, Carlyle, D. H. Lawrence, oddest of all, Emerson. . . . Norman Brown has the same apocalyptic imagery, fire, resurrection, the judgment, the body, and a very similar apocalyptic message." -- Martin Green, Commonweal
"Norman O. Brown is variously considered the architect of a new view of man, a modern-day shaman, and a Pied Piper leading the youth of America astray. His more ardent admirers, of whom I am one, judge him one of the seminal thinkers who profoundly challenge the dominant assumptions of the age. Although he is a classicist by training who came late to the study of Freud and later to mysticism, he has already created a revolution in psychological theory." -- Sam Keen, Psychology Today
"Provocative as Norman O. Brown is, he is also very hard to refute. The most important reason is that, in my judgment, he is so largely right. His brilliance is a great joy to the reader." -- Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Book Week
"What a provocative, original and richly imaginative book it is." -- Eliot Fremont-Smith, The New York Times
"Norman O. Brown is variously considered the architect of a new view of man, a modern-day shaman, and a Pied Piper leading the youth of America astray. His more ardent admirers, of whom I am one, judge him one of the seminal thinkers who profoundly challenge the dominant assumptions of the age. Although he is a classicist by training who came late to the study of Freud and later to mysticism, he has already created a revolution in psychological theory." -- Sam Keen, Psychology Today
"Provocative as Norman O. Brown is, he is also very hard to refute. The most important reason is that, in my judgment, he is so largely right. His brilliance is a great joy to the reader." -- Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Book Week
"What a provocative, original and richly imaginative book it is." -- Eliot Fremont-Smith, The New York Times
About the Author
Norman O. Brown (1913-2002) was Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History.
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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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This book gives you a lot to think about,
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This review is from: Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition (Paperback)
Twenty years ago a friend told me to read Life Against Death. He said it changed his life. I read it and liked it but it didn't change my life. Recently I finally got around to reading this, his second book. I'm afraid I'm too old for any book to change my life, but I thoroughly enjoyed this provocative book. It is a series of meditations, inspired by a wide range of other thinkers who are referenced after each section,as opposed to the unified argument put forward in Life Against Death. As in that book, Freud is an influence, but so is Blake, Buddhism,Roheim, and Nietzsche, who may have provided the aphoristic format. Brown was one of the intellectual gurus of the Sixties, but unlike many others from that time, his ideas hold up thirty years later.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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A Masterpiece of intellect and mysticism; a Poem.,
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This review is from: Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition (Hardcover)
This is a profound and learned book that is experienced as much as read. I first found it in college and the reread was an equalling enlightening journey. With insights from Freud, Blake, and buddhist mysticism it destroys the Reality Principle and the traps of literal interpretation. It leads us to know the Silence behind the words.
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A wonderful book, too little read, seldom understood,
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This review is from: Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition (Hardcover)
This is the kind of book to keep by the bedside. A few of these aphorisms are enough to think about at one time. Brown is remarkable in the way he gathers tidbits from the past to present a non literal interpretation of the Christian religion. He is much influenced by the poet William Blake. For all those who fear the concretization of the symbolic world in this culture, this is the book to read.
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