NORMAN O. BROWN is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is also the author of Hermes the Thief: The Evolution of a Myth, Hesiod's Theogony, Love's Body and Closing Time. His most recent book, Apocalypse and / or Metamorphosis, completes a trilogy which includes Life Against Death and Love's Body.
"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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