Norman O. Brown

This special issue is a reflection, examination, and critique of the work of world-influential philosopher and critic Norman O. Brown. The relevance of Brown’s scholarship in and for the present is broad, the authors argue, including his investigations of the failing university model, the boundaries between human and nonhuman, the utopian and revolutionary potential of Islam, the practice and prophetic power of comparative literature; and the politics of philology and myth.

Contributors: Isaac Blacksin, Norman O. Brown, Stephen Carter, Jay Cantor, Michael Davidson, Joseph Donahue, Robert Duncan, Nor Hall, Rebecca M. Herzig, Barry Katz, Nathaniel Mackey, T.C. Marshall, Dale Pendell, Jed Rasula, Madeline Rose, Andrew Schelling, G.S. Sahota, Daniel Tiffany, and Rob Wilson