Anger : The Conflicted History of an Emotion.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (257 pages)
- Vices and Virtues Series .
- Vices and Virtues Series .
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE TO THE READER -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- Part 1 ANGER REJECTED (ALMOST) ABSOLUTELY -- 1 BUDDHISM -- 2 STOICISM -- 3 VIOLENCE AND NEOSTOICISM -- 4 PEACEABLE KINGDOMS -- 5 ANGRY WORDS -- Part 2 ANGER AS A VICE BUT ALSO (SOMETIMES) AS A VIRTUE -- 6 ARISTOTLE AND HIS HEIRS -- 7 FROM HELL TO HEAVEN -- 8 MORAL SENTIMENTS -- Part 3 NATURAL ANGER -- 9 EARLY MEDICAL TRADITIONS -- 10 IN THE LAB -- 11 SOCIETY'S CHILD -- 12 ANGER CELEBRATED -- CONCLUSION MY ANGER, OUR ANGER -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING -- SOURCES FOR PLATES -- INDEX.
Tracing the story of anger from the Buddha to Twitter, Rosenwein provides a much-needed account of our changing and contradictory understandings of this emotion.