Norman O. Brown
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Norman Oliver Brown (September 25, 1913 ā October 2, 2002) was an American scholar, writer, and social philosopher. Beginning as a classical scholar,[1] his later work branched into wide-ranging, erudite, and intellectually sophisticated considerations of history, literature, psychoanalysis, culture, and other topics. Brown advanced some novel theses and in his time achieved some general notability.
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Born | (1913-09-25)September 25, 1913 El Oro, Mexico |
Died | October 2, 2002(2002-10-02) (aged 89) |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Marxism, psychoanalysis |
Notable ideas | Symbolic consciousness, polymorphous perversity |
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