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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.
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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
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
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