Semi-P: Norman Brown//Love's Body

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 10:26:01 CST 2017


The third book in that trilogy is Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis.

NYT Obituary
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/04/arts/norman-o-brown-dies-playful-philosopher-was-89.html

David Morris

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another rec this morning:
>
> A lot of you urged me toward NOB's *Life Against Death *as *GR *companion/source
> material. Regardless of *GR *(to the extent anything is), *LAD *was
> pretty transformative.
>
> I haven't heard many of you talking about *Love's Body*, another Brown
> book that I think gets called a kind of follow-up to *LAD*. It's more
> diffusely structured than *LAD*, and it's rhetorical tactics are a bit
> subtler, more atmospheric--but this is part of its essence and argument, I
> think. Plus he's just a dazzling thinker, fun to watch on the page.
>
> Published in 1966 so seems reasonable TRP reads it before *GR*.
>
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