The Moral Psychology of Anger is the first comprehensive study of the moral psychology of anger from a philosophical perspective. In light of the recent revival of interest in emotions in philosophy and the current social and political interest in anger, this collection provides an inclusive view of anger from a variety of philosophical perspectives. The authors explore the nature of anger, explain its resilience in our emotional lives and normative frameworks, and examine what inhibits and encourages thoughts, feelings, and expressions of anger. The volume also examines rage, anger's cousin, and examines in what ways rage is a moral emotion, what black rage is and how it is policed in our society; how berserker rage is limited and problematic for the contemporary military; and how defenders of anger respond to classical and contemporary arguments that expressing anger is always destructive and immoral. This volume provides arguments for and against the value of anger in our ethical lives and in politics through a combination of empirical psychological and philosophical methods. This authors approach these questions and aims from a historical, phenomenological, empirical, feminist, political, and critical-theoretic perspective.
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The Moral Psychology of Anger is the first comprehensive study of the moral psychology of anger from a philosophical perspective. The collection provides an inclusive view of anger from a variety of philosophical perspectives.
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1. Introducing Anger, Myisha Cherry and Owen Flanagan / 2. The Common Source of Two Kinds of Anger Skepticism (and What to Do About It), Zac Cogley / 3. The Reason to Be Angry Forever?, Agnes Callard / 4. Anger and Oppression: A Tantric Buddhist Perspective, Emily McRae / 5. Transcending 'Transcending’ Anger, David Shoemaker / 6. Valuing Anger, Antti Kauppinen / 7. Berserker Rage and the Contemporary Military, John Protevi / 8. Black Rage and the Moral Anger Police, Myisha Cherry / 9. Anger and Approbation, Lee A. McBride III / 10. Power and Anger in Social Hierarchies, Bryce Huebnur / 11. Free Will and Anger: An Argument Against Abolitionist Analogues, Justin Caouette / 12. Anger as a Political Emotion: A Phenomenological Perspective, Céline Leboeuf / Index
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This is a rich and timely volume, offering several new contributions to the longstanding debate about the morality of anger: whether it is, as Seneca claimed, ‘the most hideous and frenzied of all the emotions’ or, as Audre Lorde said, ‘a powerful source of energy serving progress and change’.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781786600752
Publisert
2017-12-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield International
Vekt
485 gr
Høyde
238 mm
Bredde
159 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
212

Biographical note

Myisha Cherry is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. Her other books include UnMuted: Conversations of Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice (2019). Her TEDx talk on anger has been viewed thousands of times.  Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He is the author of Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism (1991), Consciousness Reconsidered (1992) and The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility (2016).