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Title: Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History by Norman Oliver Brown ISBN: 0-8195-6144-4 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Still Great
Comment: An uncomfortable but still convincing argument about history and longing. Gorgeously written and well worth a return to.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Great Companion to Norman O. Brown
Comment: I love Norman O. Brown's Life Against Death. A must-read. And I'll let you in on a big secret. An undiscovered gem called THE IMMORTALIST MANIFESTO by ELIXXIR (available on Amazon) takes Brown's thesis to its rational, ultimate conclusion.
Find out why CORNEL WEST, HARVARD (NOW PRINCETON) philosophy professor calls the author Elixxir FIRST RATE! ORIGINAL...RAZOR-SHARP."
If indeed our fear of Death and our desire for Immortality are as unquenchable as Brown rightly points out, then we shall never reconcile with Death, The Immortalist Manifesto argues. But instead humanity will track it down as "the last enemy" to be conquered. Only when Death is vanquished shall we be free from the bondage of Alienation, Repression, and Oppression.
The Big Book we've been waiting for. Unlike Brown's book, which is great for intellectuals, The immortalist Manifesto has the intellectual prowess but also the potential to change the world. And as someone :) said, the point is not only to interpret the world but to change it!
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Read
Comment: This is not really a review - time is lacking. Just a strong recommendation. If the question "What is the human animal?" is on your mind, read this book! In my opinion, Life Against Death ranks among the most important modern contributions toward an understanding of the human condition. It is on the same short list as Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents and Camus' Myth of Sisyphus. Like these works and indeed the subject, it is not an easy read. I am ordering a fresh copy and looking forward to the introduction by Christopher Lasch which I have not read. I also recommend Norman O. Brown's other works - in particular, Love's Body and the collection of essays, Apocalypse And/or Metamorphosis. I first read Brown in the 1960s and revisit him often. There are those who dismiss Brown as a 1960s enfant terrible (Life was in fact written in the 1950s) but listen to them not!
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Title: Love's Body by Norman Oliver Brown ISBN: 0520071069 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The DENIAL OF DEATH by Ernest Becker, Sam Keen ISBN: 0684832402 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Apocalypse And/or Metamorphosis by Norman O. Brown ISBN: 0520078284 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Birth and Death of Meaning by E. Becker ISBN: 0029021901 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1985 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Escape from Evil by Ernest Becker ISBN: 0029024501 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1985 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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