Norman O. Brown

Norman O. Brown
Born(1913-09-25)September 25, 1913
El Oro, Mexico
DiedOctober 2, 2002(2002-10-02) (aged 89)
Santa Cruz, California
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolMarxism, psychoanalysis
Notable ideas
Symbolic consciousness, polymorphous perversity
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Norman Oliver Brown (September 25, 1913 – October 2, 2002) was an American scholar, writer, and social philosopher. Beginning as a classical scholar,[2] his later work branched into wide-ranging, erudite, and intellectually sophisticated considerations of history, literature, psychoanalysis, culture, and other topics. Brown advanced some novel theses and in his time achieved some general notability.

  1. ^ Green, Emily (19 October 2003). "The Poet of Plants". Los Angeles Times.
  2. ^ Thornton, Bruce S. (1997). Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality. Westview Press. p. 47. ISBN 0-8133-3226-5.