On anger / Agnes Callard with Paul Bloom, Judith Butler, Myisha Cherry, & Martha C. Nussbaum; editors-in-chief, Deborah Chasman & Joshua Cohen; other contributors: Chloe Fox, Adam McGee, Matt Lord, Rosie Gillies, Junot Diaz, Adom Getachew, Walter Johson, Robin D.G. Kelley, Lenore Palladino, Ed Pavlíć & Evie Shockley, Thayer Anderson, Dan Manchon, Anthony DeMusis III.
Contributors. Amy Olberding -- Righteous incivility / Agnes Callard -- Choosing violence / Paul Bloom -- The kingdom of damage / Elizabeth Bruenig -- Anger and the politics of the oppressed / Desmond Jagmohan -- The social life of anger / Daryl Cameron & Victoria Spring -- More important things / Myisha Cherry -- How anger goes wrong / Jesse Prinz -- Accountability without vengence / Rachel Achs -- What's past is prologue / Barbara Herman -- Against moral purity / Oded Na'aman -- The wound is real / Agnes Callard -- The radical equality of lives / Judith Butler interviewed by Brandon M. Terry -- A history of anger / David Konstan -- Victim anger and its costs / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Whose anger counts? / Whitney Phillips -- Righteous incivility / Amy Olberding -- Contributors.
Summary:
Anger looms large in our public lives. Should it? Reflecting on two millennia of debates about the value of anger, Agnes Callard contends that efforts to distinguish righteous forms of anger from unjust vengeance, or appropriate responses to wrongdoing from inappropriate ones, are misguided. What if, she asks, anger is not a bug of human life, but a feature--an emotion that, for all its troubling qualities, is an essential part of being a moral agent in an imperfect world? And if anger is both troubling and essential, what then do we do with the implications: that angry victims of injustice are themselves morally compromised, and that it might not be possible to respond rightly to being treated wrongly? As Callard concludes, "We can't be good in a bad world." The contributions that follow explore anger in its many forms- public and private, personal and political- raising an issue that we must grapple with: Does the vast well of public anger compromise us all?
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