Anger, Barbara H. Rosenwein
Anger, Barbara H. Rosenwein
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Anger
The Conflicted History of an Emotion

Author: Barbara H. Rosenwein

Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya

Unabridged: 7 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/11/2020


Synopsis

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

All of us think we know when we are angry, and we are sure we can recognize anger in others as well. But this is only superficially true. We see anger through lenses colored by what we know, experience, and learn.

Barbara H. Rosenwein traces our many conflicting ideas about and expressions of anger, taking the story from the Buddha to our own time, from anger's complete rejection to its warm reception. Rosenwein explores how anger has been characterized by gender and race, why it has been tied to violence and how that is often a false connection, how it has figured among the seven deadly sins and yet is considered a virtue, and how its interpretation, once largely the preserve of philosophers and theologians, has been gradually handed over to scientists—with very mixed results. Rosenwein shows that the history of anger can help us grapple with it today.

About Barbara H. Rosenwein

Barbara H. Rosenwein is professor emerita at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of numerous books, including Anger's Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages and Generations of Feeling: A History of Emotions, 600-1700.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura on July 21, 2023

This book is exactly what it says it is - a conflicted history of emotion. I appreciate that the author discussed the emotion of anger in various philosophies and religions ranging from Buddhism, Stoicism, Aristotle, Christianity (and more) in a clarifying informational way which did not include her......more

Goodreads review by Khan on August 31, 2020

Dragging theoretical & literature based......more

Goodreads review by Shelby on June 04, 2021

I was really happy to be approved to review a copy of this book by Netgalley. It covers the super interesting topic of anger, and how it is treated/viewed within different fields, for example, psychology and theology. There is no denying that this is an exceptionally well-researched book. The sheer......more

Goodreads review by Abbie on January 11, 2023

This was very well written and structured, although I knew a lot of the stuff mentioned (my fault because I studied psychology). But if you are new to the subject then this is a concise and easy-to-read introduction into emotions and in particular anger within society.......more