Rage (feat. Myisha Cherry)

Overthink

Ellie Anderson, Ph.D. and David Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D.

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Is rage a bad thing? Philosophers usually frame anger as an unhealthy or even immoral emotion that leads us away from compassion and towards violence, but episode 47 guest Myisha Cherry's new book makes The Case for Rage as a powerful tool for anti-racist work. Before their discussion with Dr. Cherry, Ellie and David discuss contrasting theories of anger from Martha Nussbaum and Buddhism. Can rage be rooted in love rather than hate, and drive us towards a more just world?

Works Discussed

Myisha Cherry, The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle
Peter Sloterdijk, Rage and Time
Martha Nussbaum, Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice
Aeschylus, The Oresteia
Shantideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra
Emily McRae, "Metabolizing Anger: A Tantric Buddhist Solution to the
Problem of Moral Anger"
Silvan Tomkins, Exploring Affect
Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”
Myisha Cherry and Owen Flanagan, The Moral Psychology of Anger
Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
Amia Srinivasan, “The Aptness of Anger”

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm David Pena Guzman.
0:08.3	And I'm Ellie Anderson.
0:10.2	Welcome to Overthink.
0:12.0	The podcast where two friends, who are also professors, put philosophy in dialogue with the everyday.
0:18.6	Because big ideas are within everyone's reach.
0:30.1	David, when's the last time you felt filled with rage? Exactly three days ago.
0:37.0	Oh my God. So recent. ago. Oh my God.
0:38.5	So recent.
0:40.2	Yes.
0:41.0	I can even give you a timestamp for the experience because it was when I was flying back
0:45.8	from Paris to San Francisco and it was a male Karen on a plane sort of situation.
0:53.7	So I boarded the plane and next to me sat this younger gentleman, a very tall, like six
1:01.9	foot four white man wearing lots of bling weirdly, which you never really see in a French
1:07.4	guy.
1:08.4	And he starts looking at his Instagram next to me and I'm like
1:11.0	checking it out.
1:12.2	And he's looking at a lot of like rappers and women in bikinis.
1:16.1	And I'm like, okay, cool.
1:17.9	You're like, this is my kind of guy.
1:19.8	Actually, the exact opposite.
1:23.3	And in front of us sits this older gentleman and he must be like late 70s, maybe mid 80s.
1:32.9	Oh, so we're talking old.
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