Writing The Passions

Uses the works of authors from Plato to Iain Banks to explore writing and the passions in thought and literature. Topics addressed in the book include the meani... » 

Uses the works of authors from Plato to Iain Banks to explore writing and the passions in thought and literature. Topics addressed in the book include the meaning of crime passionnel, art, passion and ceremonial, adoration and abjection, and the nature of the exotic. «