Synopses & Reviews
Cultural Writing. Essays. Biography and Memoir. Dale Pendell and retired professor Norman Brown, during walks taken along the coast of California, discuss many concepts and characters, including paganism and world religions, Dionysus, Marx, and Freud, presented here as footnoted conversations. Norman O. Brown (1913-2002) was an American scholar born in El Oro, Mexico. He studied at Oxford University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and taught at Wesleyan University and the University of California, Santa Cruz. "Dr. Brown was a master of philosophical speculation, mixing Marx, Freud, Jesus and much else to raise and answer immense questions" (Douglas Martin). Writer Dale Pendell was a student and friend of Brown.
Review
"Dr. Brown was a master of philosophical speculation, mixing Marx, Freud, Jesus and much else to raise and answer immense questions." Douglas Martin, The New York Times
Synopsis
Retired professor Norman O. Brown and Dale Pendell, during walks taken along the coast of California, discuss many concepts and characters, including paganism and world religions, psychoanalysis, modern and ancient cultures, Dionysus, Marx, and Freud.
Presented as footnoted conversations.
Synopsis
Discussions, transcribed after five walks, between author Dale Pendell and retired professor Norman O. Brown.
About the Author
Dale Pendell is a poet, software engineer, and longtime student of ethnobotany. His poetry has appeared in many journals, and he was the founding editor of
Kuksu: Journal of Backcountry Writing. His work appeared in
Entheogens and the Future of Religion. He has led workshops on ethnobotany and ethnopoetics for the Naropa Institute and the Botanical Preservation Corps.
Norman O. Brown (19132002) was an American scholar born in El Oro, Mexico. He studied at Oxford University and the University of Wisconsin Madison and taught at Wesleyan University and the University of California, Santa Cruz.