More Important Things: A Forum on Anger

Title: More Important Things
Published by: Boston Review
Release Date: 2020

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(I argue: A particular kind of anger at racial injustice is necessary in anti-racist struggle—but that does not mean anger cannot go wrong.)

Anger looms large in our public lives. Should it?

The contributions that follow Agnes Callard's leading essay explore anger in its many forms—public and private, personal and political—raising an issue that we must grapple with: Does the vast well of public anger compromise us all?

FORUM

Lead essay by Agnes Callard. Responses by Paul Bloom, Elizabeth Bruenig, Desmond Jagmohan, Daryl Cameron & Victoria Spring, Myisha Cherry, Jesse Prinz, Rachel Achs, Barbara Herman, Oded Na’aman. Final response by Agnes Callard.

ESSAYS

Judith Butler interviewed by Brandon M. Terry, David Konstan, Martha C. Nussbaum, Whitney Phillips, Amy Olberding.