Norman O. Brown
Norman Oliver Brown was an American scholar, writer, and social philosopher. Beginning as a classical scholar, 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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Background
- Born in
- El Oro de Hidalgo
- Educated at
- Balliol CollegeUniversity of Wisconsin–MadisonClifton College
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship
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1913
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Birth2002
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