Discourses of anger in the early modern period / edited by Karl A.E. Enenkel and Anita Traninger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Acknowledgements; Notes on the Editors; Notes on the Contributors; List of Illustrations; Chapter 1 Introduction: Discourses of Anger in the Early Modern Period; Chapter 2 Feeling Rage: The Transformation of the Concept of Anger in Eighteenth Century Germany; Part 1 Anger Management in Early Modern Philosophical Discourses; Chapter 3 Neo-Stoicism as an Antidote to Public Violence before Lipsius's De constantia: Johann Weyer's (Wier's) Anger Therapy, De ira morbo (1577); Chapter 4 Anger Management and the Rhetoric of Authenticity in Montaigne's De la colère (II, 31).

Chapter 5 Neostoic Anger: Lipsius's Reading and Useof Seneca's Tragedies and De iraChapter 6 Descartes' Notion of Anger: Aspects of a Possible History of its Premises; Chapter 7 Holy Desperation and Sanctified Wrath: Anger in Puritan Thought; Part 2 Learned Debates about Anger; Chapter 8 Anger and its Limits in the Ethical Philosophy of Giovanni Pontano; Chapter 9 Northern Anger: Early Modern Debates on Berserkers; Chapter 10 Anger and the Unity of Philosophy: Interlocking Discourses of Natural and Moral Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment.

Part 3 Anger in Literary Discourses: Epic and DramaChapter 11 Iustas in iras? Perspectives on Anger as a Driving Force in Neo-Latin Epic; Chapter 12 Epic Anger in La Gerusalemme liberata: Rinaldo's Irascibility and Tasso's Allegoria della Gerusalemme; Chapter 13 'In Zoren zu wütiger Rach': Angry Women and Men in the German Drama of the Reformation Period; Chapter 14 Pierre Corneille's Cinna ou la clémence d'Augustein Light of Contemporary Discourses on Anger (Descartes, Le Moyne, Senault); Part 4 Visual Representations of Anger.

Chapter 15 Visual Representations of Medea's Anger in the Early Modern Period: Rembrandt and RubensPart 5 Anger in Political Discourses; Chapter 16 Negotiating with 'Spirits of Brimstone and Saltpetre': Seventeenth Century French Political Officials and Their Practices and Representations of Anger; Chapter 17 Narratives of Reconciliation in Early Modern England: Between Oblivion, Clemency and Forgiveness; Part 6 Transcultural Notions of Anger; Chapter 18 Royal Wrath: Curbing the Anger of the Sultan; Chapter 19 Anger and Rage in Traditional Chinese Culture; Index Nominum.

Early 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.

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