Discourses of Anger in the Early Modern Period

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-30082-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 492 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 909 g

Reihe: Intersections

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.

Conttributors include 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 Yelce.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Enenkel, Karl A E

Traninger, Anita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Ethik, Moraltheologie, Sozialethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Index nominum

Über Autor(innen)

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.