Anger: The Conflicted History of an Emotion

Tracing the story of anger from the Buddha to Twitter, Rosenwein provides a much-needed account of our changing and contradictory understandings of this emotion



All of us think we know when we are angry, and we are sure we can recognize anger in others as well. But this is only superficially true. We see anger through lenses colored by what we know, experience, and learn.



Barbara H. Rosenwein traces our many conflicting ideas about and expressions of anger, taking the story from the Buddha to...