Norman O. Brown





Norman O. Brown

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born
September 25, 1913 in El Oro, Mexico

died
October 02, 2002

gender
male

genre

influences
Hesiod, Freud, Carl Schorske, Bataille, Isaiah Berlin


About this author

Norman Oliver Brown was an American classicist who is known for his translation and commentaries on the works of Hesiod. A student of Carl Schorske and Isaiah Berlin, he taught classics at Wesleyan University, University of Rochester, and UC-Santa Cruz.


Average rating: 4.17 · 242 ratings · 31 reviews · 8 distinct works
Life Against Death
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 1959 — 8 editions
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Love's Body
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1966 — 5 editions
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Apocalypse And/Or Metamorph...
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Hermes the Thief
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1969
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Closing Time
4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions
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Upadesasahasri of Sankara
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Theogony
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More books by Norman O. Brown…
“The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.”
Norman O. Brown

“The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.”
Norman O. Brown

“Meaning is not in things but in between them.”
Norman O. Brown