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About the Book

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.

About the Author

Norman O. Brown (1913-2002) was Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History.

Table of Contents

Preface
I Liberty
II Nature
III Trinity
IV Unity
V Person
VI Representative
VII Head
VIII Boundary
IX Food
X Fire
XI Fraction
XII Resurrection
XIII Fulfillment
XIV Judgment
XV Freedom
XVI Nothing
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