|
October 7, 2002 In Memoriam Norman O. Brown
Norman O. Brown, professor emeritus of humanities and author of Life Against Death and Love's Body, died October 2 at his residence in Santa Cruz. He was 89. Brown's influential scholarship and teaching encompassed the classics,
theology, history, psychology, sociology, and literature, among other
disciplines. "He was a liberating, visionary scholar, the successor
in the 20th century to Blake and to Nietzsche," said Jerome Neu,
professor of philosophy at UCSC and a longtime colleague of Brown. Brown taught a variety of courses, mostly through the History of Consciousness Department, until his retirement in 1981. His last two books were Closing Time (1973), and Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis (1991), a collection of essays he had written over the course of 30 years. A celebration of the life of Norman O. Brown will take place on Saturday,
October 19, at 3 p.m. in a location to be determined; when a location
is determined, it will be posted on this web page. Francisco Parcet Francisco Parcet, a Crown College junior who was majoring in mathematics,
died while swimming in the East Field pool September 28; he was 26. As of Monday (October 7) the cause of his death had not yet been reported by the Santa Cruz County Coroner's Office. |
|||