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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.
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.
Price: $256.00
Pages: 492
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Intersections
Publication Date:
07 August 2015
ISBN: 9789004300828
Format: Hardcover
“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.
Kirk Essary, The University of Western Australia. In: Emotions: History, Culture, Society, Vol.1, No.1 (2017), pp. 208-210.
Karl Enenkel is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster. Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden. He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300-1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science.
Anita Traninger is Einstein Junior Fellow at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Freie Universität Berlin. Her areas of research include the history of rhetoric and dialectics, literature and discourses of knowledge in early modern Europe, and the history and theory of literary and epistemic genres.
Anita Traninger is Einstein Junior Fellow at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Freie Universität Berlin. Her areas of research include the history of rhetoric and dialectics, literature and discourses of knowledge in early modern Europe, and the history and theory of literary and epistemic genres.