The Passionate Mind: Sources of Destruction and Creativity

by Robin Fox

Consciousness, declares Robin Fox, is "out of context." Useful as an adaptation in the Stone Age, it brought humanity to the top of the food chain but has now created a world it cannot control. The Passionate Mind explores this paradox not through academic demonstration but through satiric dialogues, blank-verse ruminations, lyric, narrative and comic verse, and Aesopian fables. This mix of genres and styles forces us out of our usual linear modes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765806320
• ISBN13: 9780765806321
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"