Closing Time, by Norman O. Brown by Alan Goldfein In 1959 Norman O. Brown published Life Against Death, an attempt to take Freud's principles beyond Freud, to explain how…
The Country and the City, by Raymond Williams by Alan Goldfein Early in The Country and the City Raymond Williams quotes a couplet by George Crabbe (from The Village, 1783): "No…
Where the Wasteland Ends, by Theodore Roszak by Alan Goldfein When Theodore Roszak wrote his popular "The Making of a Counter Culture" back in 1969, he may have been partial…
Philosophy and Human Nature; A Soul in the Quad, by Kathleen Nott by Alan Goldfein My first reaction to Sartre's "La Nausee" was inadequacy and guilt. Try as I would, it was impossible for me…
Science and Sentiment in America, by Morton White by Alan Goldfein Near the end of his new book, Morton White says that "on all the lower floors of philosophical anti-intellectualism we…
The End of the Modern Age, by Allen Wheelis by Alan Goldfein Once upon a time there was a man who wrote fantasies and parables and meditations that sometimes started once upon…
