In Defense of Norman O. Brown  

Lionel Abel’s “Important Nonsense: Norman 0. Brown” (DISSENT, March-April 1968) proves only that Abel calls “nonsense” anything that won’t squeeze into his preconceptions. Brown’s work just doesn’t fit the squeeze, and so it cannot be fairly described—much less criticized—in Abel’s …



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