Norman Oliver Brown bol americký klasicista, známy svojim prekladom a komentármi k dielam Hésioda. Bol žiakom Carla Schorskeho a Isaiaha Berlina a vyučoval klasické jazyky a literatúru na Wesleyan University, University of Rochester a UC-Santa Cruz.
Part of a trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature, this book contains eleven essays that covers 1990 and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe.
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 .
A shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis.