Raging better
Reflections on the Myisha Cherry's The Case for Rage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21395076 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alice Maclachlan (0000-0002-8222-4221, Department of Philosophy York University Toronto Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 390-398 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Southern Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-4283 • E-ISSN: 2041-6962 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/sjp.12510 |
| OpenAlex | W4366683289 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Myisha Cherry's The Case for Rage is a significant addition to the growing body of analytic philosophy that succeeds in not just engaging but shaping and even creating new forms of public discourse. It does so while remaining an exemplar for what good analytic philosophy should look like: filled with systematic and clear distinctions that illuminate rather than obfuscate real and concrete lived phenomena. I offer two challenges to Cherry's typology of rage: first, I rehabilitate two of variations she takes to be morally and politically problematic, and, second, I argue that the freedom to feel, express, and act on Lordean rage proper should be more limited than Cherry allows. I then raise a set of questions about the aesthetics of persuasive anger. Finally, I highlight two striking insights in Cherry's rich argument
Action (physics) · Aesthetics · Anger · Argument (complex analysis) · Epistemology · Rage (emotion) · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Typology · Computer Science · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |