The Moral Psychology of Anger is the first comprehensive study of the moral psychology of anger from a philosophical perspective. In light of the recent revival of interest in emotions in philosophy and the current social and political interest in anger, this collection provides an inclusive view of anger from a variety of philosophical perspectives. The authors explore the nature of anger, explain its resilience in our emotional lives and normative frameworks, and examine what inhibits and encourages thoughts, feelings, and expressions of anger. The volume also examines rage, angers cousin, and examines in what ways rage is a moral emotion, what black rage is and how it is policed in our society; how berserker rage is limited and problematic for the contemporary military; and how defenders of anger respond to classical and contemporary arguments that expressing anger is always destructive and immoral.

This volume provides arguments for and against the value of anger in our ethical lives and in politics through a combination of empirical psychological and philosophical methods. This authors approach these questions and aims from a historical, phenomenological, empirical, feminist, political, and critical-theoretic perspective.

Myisha Cherry is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. Her other books includeUnMuted: Conversations of Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice (2019). Her TEDx talk on anger has been viewed thousands of times.

Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He is the author ofVarieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism (1991),Consciousness Reconsidered (1992) andThe Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility (2016).

Introduction: The Moral Psychology of Anger,Owen Flanagan / 1. Anger and Approbation,Lee A. McBride III/ 2. Anger as a Political Emotion: A Phenomenological Perspective,Céline Leboeuf / 3. Valuing Anger,Antti Kauppinen / 4. The Errors and Limitations of Our "Anger-Evaluating" Ways,Myisha Cherry / 5. You Oughta Know: Defending Angry Blame,David Shoemaker / 6. Anger and Patience,Bryce Huebnur / 7. Anger and Oppression: Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Perspectives,Emily McRae / 8. The Reason to Be Angry Forever,Agnes Callard/ 9. The Berserker Rage,John Protevi / Bibliography / Index / Notes on Contributors