Moral Psychology of Sadness

This book offers both an introduction to the methods and language of moral psychology as a philosophical field, and to sadness as an emotion.

List of contents

1. Dedication / 2. Acknowledgments / 3. Introduction: The Topographies of Sadness: An Introduction to The Moral Psychology of Sadness Anna Gotlib / Part I: The Phenomenologies of Sadness / 4. Untold Sorrow, Andrea Westlund / 5. "Should We Feel Sad About Scheffler's Doomsday Scenario?", Christine Vitrano / 6. "Sadness, Sense, and Sensibility," Jamie Lindemann Nelson / 7. "I know that I'll be leaving soon: Sadness, Intersubjectivity, and the Lesson of Inside Out," Claire Katz / Part II: Sadness and Other Emotions / 8. "Grief and Recovery," Erica Preston-Roedder and Ryan Preston-Roedder / 9. "Forgiveness and The Moral Psychology of Sadness," Jeffrey Blustein / Part III: Sadness and Nostalgia / 10. "Nostalgia and Mental Simulation," Felipe De Brigard / 11. "Memory, Sadness and Longing: Exile Nostalgias as Attunement to Loss," Anna Gotlib / 12. Index

About the author

Anna Gotlib is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College CUNY.

Summary

This book offers both an introduction to the methods and language of moral psychology as a philosophical field, and to sadness as an emotion.

Product details

• Assisted by: Anna Gotlib (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2017
• EAN: 9781783488605
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-860-5
• Series: Moral Psychology of the Emotio; Moral Psychology of the Emotions; Moral Psychology of the Emotions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PSYCHOLOGY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Psychology: emotions, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy