Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)

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While ancient civilizations worshipped strong, active emotions, modern societies have favored more peaceful attitudes, especially within the democratic process. We have in large part forgotten the struggle to make use of thymos, the a part of the soul that, following Plato, incorporates spirit, pride, and indignation. Slightly, Christianity and psychoanalysis have promoted mutual understanding to triumph over conflict. Through unique examples, Peter Sloterdijk, the preeminent posthumanist, argues exactly the opposite, showing how the history of Western civilization will also be read as a suppression and return of rage.

By way of reinterpreting the Iliad, Alexandre Dumas’s Count of Monte Cristo, and up to date Islamic political riots in Paris, Sloterdijk proves the fallacy that rage is an emotion capable of keep an eye on. Global terrorism and economic frustrations have rendered strong emotions visibly resurgent, and the consequences of violent outbursts will resolve 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 correct place of rage and channels it into productive political struggle.

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