Tag: emotions

literature, Personal story, quotations to write by

On revenge

Jeff Rich

"All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event - in the living act, the undoubted deed - there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside… Continue reading On revenge

culture, the real world today

Political emotions

Jeff Rich

I am giving a paper at the end of this week at a seminar run by the Australian Research Council Centre for the History of Emotions, at the University of Melbourne. It is a second venture for me onto the stage of a more academic kind of writing, although the paper is not especially academic.… Continue reading Political emotions