Rage And Time

Author : Peter Sloterdijk
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231518366
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rage and Time written by Peter Sloterdijk and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While ancient civilizations worshipped strong, active emotions, modern societies have favored more peaceful attitudes, especially within the democratic process. We have largely forgotten the struggle to make use of thymos, the part of the soul that, following Plato, contains spirit, pride, and indignation. Rather, Christianity and psychoanalysis have promoted mutual understanding to overcome conflict. Through unique examples, Peter Sloterdijk, the preeminent posthumanist, argues exactly the opposite, showing how the history of Western civilization can be read as a suppression and return of rage. By way of reinterpreting the Iliad, Alexandre Dumas's Count of Monte Cristo, and recent Islamic political riots in Paris, Sloterdijk proves the fallacy that rage is an emotion capable of control. Global terrorism and economic frustrations have rendered strong emotions visibly resurgent, and the consequences of violent outbursts will determine international relations for decades to come. To better respond to rage and its complexity, Sloterdijk daringly breaks with entrenched dogma and contructs a new theory for confronting conflict. His approach acknowledges and respects the proper place of rage and channels it into productive political struggle.

Author : Peter Sloterdijk
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231145225
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rage and Time written by Peter Sloterdijk and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While ancient civilizations worshipped strong, active emotions, modern societies have favored more peaceful attitudes, especially within the democratic process. We have largely forgotten the struggle to make use of thymos, the part of the soul that, following Plato, contains spirit, pride, and indignation. Rather, Christianity and psychoanalysis have promoted mutual understanding to overcome conflict. Through unique examples, Peter Sloterdijk, the preeminent posthumanist, argues exactly the opposite, showing how the history of Western civilization can be read as a suppression and return of rage. By way of reinterpreting the Iliad, Alexandre Dumas's Count of Monte Cristo, and recent Islamic political riots in Paris, Sloterdijk proves the fallacy that rage is an emotion capable of control. Global terrorism and economic frustrations have rendered strong emotions visibly resurgent, and the consequences of violent outbursts will determine international relations for decades to come. To better respond to rage and its complexity, Sloterdijk daringly breaks with entrenched dogma and contructs a new theory for confronting conflict. His approach acknowledges and respects the proper place of rage and channels it into productive political struggle.

Author : Julie A. Christiansen
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1506492355
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Rage written by Julie A. Christiansen and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2024 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Rise of Rage is a narrative analysis of anger's place on the emotional spectrum and how our thoughts dictate actions and lead to outcomes in our lives. Christiansen's aim is to assist readers seeking to understand and manage their emotions as they navigate everyday life"--

Author : Steven W. Webster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108870341
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Rage written by Steven W. Webster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Rage argues that anger is the central emotion governing contemporary US politics, with powerful, deleterious effects. Tracing the developments that have given rise to a culture of anger in the mass public, the book sheds new light on both public opinion and voting behavior. Steven W. Webster skillfully uses a combination of novel datasets, new measures of anger, and a series of experiments to show how anger causes citizens to lose trust in the national government and weaken in their commitment to democratic norms and values. Despite these negative consequences, political elites strategically seek to elicit anger among their supporters. Presenting compelling evidence, Webster ultimately concludes that elites engage in this behavior because voter anger leads to voter loyalty. When voters are angry, they are more likely to vote for their party's slate of candidates at multiple levels of the federal electoral system.

Author : William V. Harris
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674038356
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restraining Rage written by William V. Harris and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The angry emotions, and the problems they presented, were an ancient Greek preoccupation from Homer to late antiquity. From the first lines of the Iliad to the church fathers of the fourth century A.D., the control or elimination of rage was an obsessive concern. From the Greek world it passed to the Romans. Drawing on a wide range of ancient texts, and on recent work in anthropology and psychology, Restraining Rage explains the rise and persistence of this concern. W. V. Harris shows that the discourse of anger-control was of crucial importance in several different spheres, in politics--both republican and monarchical--in the family, and in the slave economy. He suggests that it played a special role in maintaining male domination over women. He explores the working out of these themes in Attic tragedy, in the great Greek historians, in Aristotle and the Hellenistic philosophers, and in many other kinds of texts. From the time of Plato onward, educated Greeks developed a strong conscious interest in their own psychic health. Emotional control was part of this. Harris offers a new theory to explain this interest, and a history of the anger-therapy that derived from it. He ends by suggesting some contemporary lessons that can be drawn from the Greek and Roman experience.

Author : Scarlett Doyle
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1499081014
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Rage written by Scarlett Doyle and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LOUISIANA Dr. John Foster and his brother, Jason, pack the van, bound for their isolated fishing cabin on an inlet of Bayou D'Arbonne Lake. John, a nationally-acclaimed petroleum and natural gas expert, is eager to break away from his workload and beat out his brother in their annual fishing challenge. Jason, a brilliant, unemployed free-spirit, is keen on the trip too, but becomes distracted from fishing after he sees a small sign along the roadside that advertises a local bar named, The Mud Hole. Jason pays a visit to The Mud Hole and becomes a regular, picking up money at the pool table and women at the bar. His popularity escalates during absent-minded bar talk when he tells a lie that ensnares John and his brother's fiancé, Jordanna Gray, into a downward spiral of international espionage and murder. Their future and the future of the United States of America as a world power weigh perilously in the balance — events triggered by one little lie ....

Author : Michael Eigen
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819565860
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rage written by Michael Eigen and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a complex account of a human emotion.

Author : Melissa Mayer
Publisher : Compass Point Books
ISBN 13 : 0756562163
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why We Rage written by Melissa Mayer and published by Compass Point Books. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever blown up at your best friend or sibling? Maybe you were just so angry, but you didn't really know why. The answer is in the science of rage! Whether you keep your anger bottled up or sometimes lash out with or without meaning to, middle school is a time when you get ALL. THE. FEELS. But next time you or your friends get mad, you'll understand what's really going on in your brains. Plus, you'll learn tips to decode aggressive body language and how to listen when your anger is telling you something is wrong. Find out what's happening in your body and how anger can actually be useful. But keep your head! Mental health is still important, so when rage and aggressive feelings have crossed the line, you'll also learn when it's time to reach out for help.

Author : Myisha Cherry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197557341
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case for Rage written by Myisha Cherry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anger has a bad reputation. Many people think that it is counterproductive, distracting, and destructive. It is a negative emotion, many believe, because it can lead so quickly to violence or an overwhelming fury. And coming from people of color, it takes on connotations that are even more sinister, stirring up stereotypes, making white people fear what an angry other might be capable of doing, when angry, and leading them to turn to hatred or violence in turn, to squelch an anger that might upset the racial status quo"--

Author : Diana J. Vargas
Publisher : Diana J. Vargas
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Hunter’s Rage written by Diana J. Vargas and published by Diana J. Vargas. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is it. He's going to die, and I'll be free. At the last second, he moved, and I was suddenly pinned up against the wall, the silver dagger now in his hand. He pressed the blade to my throat, a sadistic grin creeping across his face. "Oh, Reese," he purred. "Are you in trouble now..." He leaned closer, his lips brushing my jaw. I inhaled softly. "Please," I said, my voice shaky... *** In a world where the human population has been overrun by all manner of supernatural entities, defiance is met with death. Humans are forced to be living blood bags for vampires, test subjects for witches and warlocks, and the slaves and servants of werewolves. Reese Hearne remembers the time before. When supernatural beings hid in the shadows, afraid to show their faces to the world. The time before Hunters became the prey, before they were tracked down and killed. Every last one of them. Except for Reese. Fueled by a dark past, she wrecks havoc across the supernatural world in Toronto, armed only by stakes, a silver dagger, and a lust for revenge. Then she kills the younger brother of Elijah Randon, Toronto's Alpha, the Alpha of the largest pack in North America. And he is not one to forgive easily. Then again, neither is Reese. *** "Unfortunately, Little Hunter, I have my own game to play..."