| The Moral Psychology of Anger Contributor(s): Cherry, Myisha (Editor), Flanagan, Owen (Editor) |
|
 |
ISBN: 1786600757 ISBN-13: 9781786600752 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $152.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Philosophy | Mind & Body - Psychology | Emotions |
| Dewey: 179.8 |
| LCCN: 2017043450 |
| Series: Moral Psychology of the Emotions |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.40 lbs) 212 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Flanagan, Owen: - 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).Cherry, Myisha: - Myisha Cherry is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago. In 2018, she will join the department of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside as an Assistant Professor. Her TEDX talk, "Anger is Not a Bad Word" has received thousands of views. |
