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The Vehement Passions
The Vehement Passions
Author: Philip Fisher
Breaking off the ordinary flow of experience, the passions create a state of exception. In their suddenness and intensity, they map a personal world, fix and qualify our attention, and impel our actions. Outraged anger drives us to write laws that will later be enforced by impersonal justice. Intense grief at the death of someone in our life dis...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691069968
ISBN-10: 0691069964
Publication Date: 3/25/2002
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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