Au bout de la colère | Michel Erman

EAN : 9782259259897

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Pages : 240

Size : 132 x 201 mm

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Getting to the bottom of anger

Michel Erman

Release date : 18/01/2018

Anger is the sign of an era of individualism, social ties being based first and foremost on emotions. What are the reasons behind anger? Is it a positive thing for a person to feel? Michel Erman answers those questions and more about a passion-fuelled emotion while describing its
various expressions and incarnations (populism, revenge, lampooning and more).

Nowadays, it would seem that anger in its different modes, which can range
from annoyance to hatred, irrigates our psyches in a flattering way. That is
a very recent phenomenon. In fact, as recently as the early 2000s, people
generally believed that anger was an aversive, off-putting passion, which
was essentially forbidden, practically banished... Nowadays, it would seem that anger in its different modes, which can range
from annoyance to hatred, irrigates our psyches in a flattering way. That is
a very recent phenomenon. In fact, as recently as the early 2000s, people
generally believed that anger was an aversive, off-putting passion, which
was essentially forbidden, practically banished in public.
What explains this turn-around? What is anger for? What are the reasons for
this passion-fuelled emotion that would seem to be the most upsetting, and
yet the most human of them all? Why has it never been incorporated into
moralism, which condemns it? Does it have a positive side for us? Those are
some of the questions this essay tries to answer, by describing a wide range
of expressions and incarnations of anger (populism, revenge, lampooning
and more).
With this emotion, which may be the oldest one in the world, we run up
against the opacity of human relations, which are torn between altruism
and self-affirmation. It is that passion-filled opacity that anger enables us to
explore, while at the same time reminding us that, from an anthropological
point of view, human beings are not only creatures of reason, we are also –
and foremost – affected by the experiences we call emotions.

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EAN : 9782259259897

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 240

Size : 132 x 201 mm

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