Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
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Author: Norman O. Brown
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 9780819561442
ISBN 13: 978-0819561442
A shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis.
Review
"One of the most interesting and valuable works of our time. Brown's contribution to moral thought . . . cannot be overestimated. His book is far-ranging, thoroughgoing, extreme, and shocking. It gives the best interpretation of Freud I know."―Lionel Trilling
Review
"One of the most interesting and valuable works of our time. Brown's contribution to moral thought . . . cannot be overestimated. His book is far-ranging, thoroughgoing, extreme, and shocking. It gives the best interpretation of Freud I know."―Lionel Trilling
"Life Against Death cannot fail to shock, if it is taken personally; for it is a book which does not aim at eventual reconciliation with the views of common senseThe highest praise one can give to Brown's book is that, apart from its all-important attempt to penetrate and further the insights of Freud, it is the first major attempt to formulate an eschatology of immanence in the seventy years since Nietzsche."―Susan Sontag
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