Bøker av George Corbett

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to steal someone's identity? Have you ever thought about your son going missing in the vicinity of an escaped serial killer? Or, perhaps you would like to know what it might be like to wash up on a deserted island. Maybe, you might want to know about the aftermath of a nuclear bomb, or just what it is like to meet a ghost that has lost her teddy.Perhaps, you have found a teacher at school distractingly attractive, or had dreams about the love of your life that you will never meet. Writing Back is a collection of stories about fighting back. Set over a truly wonderful selection of settings and eras, there is a story for everyone, and characters anyone can get behind.

This book explores Dante's reception and polemical representation of Epicureanism, and the light this sheds on his dualistic theory of the secular and spiritual hemispheres of human conduct. It also addresses a significant gap in Dante scholarship.

Dante and Epicurus seem poles apart. Dante, a committed Christian, depicted in the Commedia a vision of the afterlife and God's divine justice. Epicurus, a pagan philosopher, taught that the soul is mortal and that all religion is vain superstition. And yet Epicurus is, for Dante, not only the quintessential heretic but an ethical ally.