Apocalypse And/or MetamorphosisUniversity of California Press, 1991 - 200 páginas Here is the final volume of Norman O. Brown's trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature. Following on his famous books Life Against Death and Love's Body, this collection of eleven essays brings Brown's thinking up to 1990 and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. Brown writes that "the prophetic tradition is an attempt to give direction to the social structure precipitated by the urban revolution; to resolve its inherent contradictions; to put an end to its injustice, inequality, anomie, the state of war . . . that has been its history from start to finish." Affiliating himself with prophets from Muhammad to Blake and Emerson, Brown offers further meditations on what's wrong with Western civilization and what we might do about it. Thus the duality in his title: crisis and the hope for change. In pieces both poetic and philosophical, Brown's attention ranges over Greek mythology, Islam, Spinoza, and Finnegan's Wake. The collection includes an autobiographical essay musing on Brown's own intellectual development. The final piece, "Dionysus in 1990," draws on Freud and the work of Georges Bataille to link the recent changes in the world's economies with mankind's primordial drive to accumulation, waste, and death. |
Índice
The Place of Mystery in the Life of the Mind | 1 |
Daphne or Metamorphosis | 8 |
A Palinode in Praise of Work | 23 |
Metamorphoses | 31 |
The Prophetic Tradition | 46 |
The Apocalypse of Islam | 69 |
Spinozas Hermeneutics | 95 |
The Turn to Spinoza | 117 |
Revisioning Historical Identities | 158 |
Dionysus in 1990 | 179 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Actaeon Allah Amor angel apocalyptic Balibar Bataille becomes Blake Cantos century chapter Christ Christian Corbin Dante Dante's Daphne death Dionysian Dionysus Divine Narcissus Docetism dogs earth Elijah energy eternal Ethics eyes Ezra Pound Finnegans Wake Freud Freudian garden Gnostic Gog and Magog Gospel hath heart heaven historical identity Hodgson horn Human Nature Ibn Arabi idea individual Islam Jesus Jewish Khidr Koran labor laurel Lord Louis Zukofsky Love's Body lover madness Mantis Interpreted Marx Marxist mass Massignon meaning Metamorphoses mind modern Moses Muhammad mystery mystic Negri notion original Ovid perfection philosophy poem poetry political principle prophecy prophetic tradition reality reason religion revelation says Scripture sestina Shiite social song soul speaks Spinoza Spinozistic spirit Sufi Sufism sura thee theology theophany things thou thought Thy beauty tion Tractatus Theologico-Politicus transformed tree truth universal unto vision Western whole words York Zukofsky Zukofsky's