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Richard Wollheim

Richard Wollheim, who died on 4 November 2003, was Grote Professor in the University of London, before moving to the States, where he taught at Columbia and at Berkeley. His last book was On the Emotions (1999).

From the London Review dated 4 December 2003

A Bed out of Leaves

“Would I regard it as my duty, as soon as I had arranged transport, to drive over to Belsen, see the people in charge, and arrange a dance? I told my colonel, as respectfully as I could, that I thought this a very bad idea. My colonel reminded me where the idea had originated, it had come from very high up, it was an order.” [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

  • Germs: A Memoir of Childhood (2004)
  • On the Emotions (1999)
  • The Mind and Its Depths (1993)
  • Art and Its Objects (second edition, 1980)
  • On Art and the Mind (1973)

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