Summary

This is a collection of discourses from figures as diverse as Van Gogh and Nietzsche, in which Peter Abbs makes use of history and mythology to examine the present.

This is a collection of discourses from figures as diverse as Van Gogh and Nietzsche, in which Peter Abbs makes use of history and mythology to examine the present. Abbs's recurring preoccupations - myth versus autobiography and the influence of the imagination on our perceptions - are expressed in a variety of tones.