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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• 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.