El cuerpo del amor
O. Brown, Norman
2005
El cuerpo del amor
Biographies
O. Brown, Norman
Norman O. Brown, (1913-2002), philosopher, social critic, professor of classical languages at the universities of Wesleyan and Rochester and emeritus professor of humanities at the University of California, had a fascination in the early 1950s for Freud’s theories and proposed going beyond psychoanalysis.
In "Life Against Death" (1959, published in this collection under the title Eros y Tánatos) he took that step, driven by “the need to renew thought on the natureand destiny of man”. Thanks to this book he was hailed -along with his friend Herbert Marcuse- as an intellectual leader of the counterculture movement that emerged in the United States in the 1960s, much to Brown’s dismay since he would rather have been known as a researcher and professor than a radical revolutionary.
O. Brown, Norman
| 2005In the early 50s, Norman O. Brown was fascinated by Freud’s thinking and was determined to go beyond his psychoanalysis. In “Life Against Death” (1959, published in this same collection as “Eros y Tánatos”) Professor Brown gave the first step, driven by the “need to revaluate the nature and the destiny of man.” “Love’s Body” is the continuation of this voyage, which made of him an intellectual leader -together with his friend Herbert Marcuse- of the counter-cultural movement that arouse in the 60s in the United States, although much to his regret, as Brown preferred being known as a researcher and professor, and not as a radical and revolutionary.
With this masterwork, Norman O. Brown falls within the line of thought of renowned authors of the 19th and the 20th century,such as Nietzsche, Blake, Freud, or Emerson. The most respectable American critic has come to qualify it as a modern version of “Thus Spake Zarathustra”. More than 40 years after its publication, it still is an essential text. Its edition in Spanish offers new generations the suggestive reading of the best contemporary philosophy.
ISBN 978-84-934626-1-6
O. Brown, Norman – 2005
Spanish
Paperback, 23.5 x 16 cm / 9.165″ x 6.24″
246 pp
