Representing the Passions: Histories, Bodies, Visions Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: The Problem of the Passions	1
	Cogito Embodied: Force and Counterforce in Rene Descartes Les passions de l'ame	13
	Music and the Order of the Passions	37
	Masses, Mind, Matter: Political Passions and Collective Violence in Post-Imperial Austria	69
	Observations on the Natural History of the Web	103
	Bill Viola, Passions Series - Images and Production Notes
	Unspeakable Passions: The Civil and Savage Lessons of Early Modern Animal Representation	137
	The Afterlife of Sarah Siddons; or, The Archives of Performance	163
	Pulling Ribbons from Mouths: Roland Barthes's Umbilical Referent	175
	Anne and Patrick Poirier, Perverse Passions - Perversity Douleur Caresses Desire Traces Anonyme Violation Obscur
	Pleasure and Misery: Catholic Sources of Paul Gauguin's and Pablo Picasso's Abstraction	217
	Collecting against Forgetting: East of the River: Chicano Art Collectors Anonymous	249
	A Passion for the Dead: Ancient Objects and Everyday Life	270
	Biographical Notes on the Contributors	289
	Illustration Credits	292
	Index	295