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Book SynopsisEarly modern anger is informed by fundamental paradoxes: qualified as a sin since the Middle Ages, it was still attributed a valuable function in the service of restoring social order; at the same time, the fight against one’s own anger was perceived as exceedingly difficult. And while it was seen as essential for the defence of an individual’s social position, it was at the same time considered a self-destructive force. The contributions in this volume converge in the aim of mapping out the discursive networks in which anger featured and how they all generated their own version, assessment, and semantics of anger. These discourses include philosophy and theology, poetry, medicine, law, political theory, and art. Contributors: David M. Barbee, Maria Berbara, Tamás Demeter, Jan-Frans van Dijkhuizen, Betül Dilmac, Karl Enenkel, Tilman Haug, Michael Krewet, Johannes F. Lehmann, John Nassichuk, Jan Papy, Christian Peters, Bernd Roling, Paolo Santangelo, Barbara Sasse Tateo, Anita Traninger, Jakob Willis, and Zeynep Yelçe.
Trade Review“A major contribution to the reception of Stoicism […]. The variegated approach taken in this volume is indispensable for the field. As Seneca wrote about anger, there are ‘a thousand other kinds of this multiform evil’, but by contributing a number of high-quality essays that approach anger from different angles, the authors have done us a service not only for thinking about the thousands of kinds of anger in the early modern period, but for thinking about emotions in history comparatively and across disciplines as well.” Kirk Essary, The University of Western Australia. In: Emotions: History, Culture, Society, Vol.1, No.1 (2017), pp. 208-210.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: Discourses of Anger in the Early Modern Period Karl A.E. Enenkel and Anita Traninger Feeling Rage: The Transformation of the Concept of Anger in Eighteenth Century Germany Johannes F. Lehmann 1. ANGER MANAGEMENT IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSES Neo-Stoicism as an Antidote for Public Violence before Lipsius’s De constantia: Johann Weyer’s (Wier’s) Therapy of Anger, De ira morbo (1577) Karl A.E. Enenkel Anger Management and the Rhetoric of Authenticity in Montaigne’s De la colère Anita Traninger Neostoic Anger: Lipsius’s Reading and Use of Seneca’s Tragedies and De ira Jan Papy Descartes’ Notion of Anger: Aspects of a Possible History of its Premises Michael Krewet Holy Desperation and Sanctified Wrath: Anger in Puritan Thought David M. Barbee 2. LEARNED DEBATES ABOUT ANGER Anger and its Limits in the Ethical Philosophy of Giovanni Pontano John Nassichuk Northern Anger: Early Modern Debates on Berserkers Bernd Roling Anger and the Unity of Philosophy: Interlocking Discourses of Natural and Moral Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment Tamás Demeter 3. ANGER IN LITERARY DISCOURSES: EPIC AND DRAMA Iustas in iras? Perspectives on Anger as a Driving Force in Neo-Latin Epic Christian Peters Epic Anger in La Gerusalemme Liberata: Rinaldo’s Irascibility and Tasso’s Allegoria della Gerusalemme Betül Dilmac ‘In Zoren zu wütiger Rach’: Angry Women and Men in the German Drama of the Reformation Period Barbara Sasse Tateo Pierre Corneilles’s Cinna ou la Clémence d’Auguste (1642) in Light of Contemporary Discourses on Anger (Descartes, Le Moyne, Senault) Jakob Willis 4. VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ANGER Visual Representations of Medea’s Anger in the Early Modern Period: Rembrandt and Rubens Maria Berbara 5. ANGER IN POLITICAL DISCOURSES Negotiating with ‘Spirits of Brimstone and Salpetre’: Seventeenth Century French Political Officials and Their Practices and Representations of Anger Tilman Haug Narratives of Reconciliation in Early Modern England: Between Oblivion, Clemency and Forgiveness Jan-Frans van Dijkhuizen TRANSCULTURAL NOTIONS OF ANGER Royal Wrath: Curbing the Anger of the Sultan N. Zeynep Yelçe Anger and Rage in Traditional Chinese Culture Paolo Santangelo Index nominum
