The Enigma of Anger: Essays on a Sometimes Deadly Sin

By Garret Keizer

Book Overview

Rage, resentment, envy, jealousy, and hatred- these emotions seem to dominate our times. They rule our highways, our workplaces, our homes, and our hearts. In this provocative book of essays, writer Garret Keizer considers anger in all its baffling forms. Poignantly aware of his own temper, and of his ties to a religion that glorifies meekness, the author looks at anger as a paradox in our struggle to remain human in the midst of an infuriating world. Interweaving personal anecdotes, mythological stories, sacred texts, and Keizer's insightful observations, The Enigma of Anger will prove a welcome companion for anyone who has ever wrestled with wrath-or wished to make better use of it.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787957283
• ISBN13: 9780787957285
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Profound and funny? Yes, Keizer can do it.

Garret Keizer is that rare philosopher who couples profound insights into what we are and how we interact with examples from our lives that clarify and convince. He's also very funny and a meticulous writer and grammarian. If you buy this book, you will lend it out over and over until it disappears into someone else's library and you'll have to buy another one. Read his book Help, if you haven't yet done so. He also writes regularly for Harper's Mgazine.

Powerfully beautiful in execution, style and scope

As beautifully crafted as it is personally moving, Keizer's book touches on themes that are universal in scope but personally affecting in execution. This important book touches on themes that quickly transcend, yet never betray, their parochial frame--a powerful work that moved this agnostic reader.