NY Times: Norman Brown, Playful Philosopher, 89, Is Dead

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Sat Oct 5 18:25:27 PDT 2002


On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 20:12:30 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes:
> Jim Farmelant wrote:
>
> >``Reading Brown was a little like taking drugs, only it was
> >more likely to lead to tenure,'' the sociologist Alan Wolfe
> >wrote in The New Republic in 1991.
>
> What a little shit Wolfe is. His rightward move has been great for
> his academic career.

He has managed to parlay his rightward shift into posts at Boston University, and more recently at Boston College, where he is a professor in the political science department and the founding Director for the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. Not bad for a guy who used to write Marxist textbooks like:

The Seamy Side Of Democracy: Repression In America. New York: McKay, 1973.

Political Analysis: An Unorthodox Approach. New York: Crowell, 1972. With Charles A. McCoy.

The Limits Of Legitimacy: Political Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism. New York: Free Press, 1977,

amongst others.

Jim F.


>
> Doug
>

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