The Dark Side: Philosophical Reflections on the “Negative Emotions” (eBook)

Paola Giacomoni, Nicolò Valentini, Sara Dellantonio (Herausgeber)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
260 Seiten
Springer-Verlag
978-3-030-55123-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book takes the reader on a philosophical quest to understand the dark side of emotions. The chapters are devoted to the analysis of negative emotions and are organized in a historical manner, spanning the period from ancient Greece to the present time. Each chapter addresses analytical questions about specific emotions generally considered to be unfavorable and classified as negative.

The general aim of the volume is to describe the polymorphous and context-sensitive nature of negative emotions as well as changes in the ways people have interpreted these emotions across different epochs. The editors speak of ‘the dark side of the emotions’ because their goal is to capture the ambivalent – unstable and shadowy – aspects of emotions.

A number of studies have taken the categorial distinction between positive and negative emotions for granted, suggesting that negative emotions are especially significant for our psychological experience because they signal difficult situations. For this reason, the editors stress the importance of raising analytical questions about the valence of particular emotions and focussing on the features that make these emotions ambivalent: how – despite their negativity – such emotions may turn out to be positive. This opens up a perspective in which each emotion can be understood as a complex interlacing of negative and positive properties.

The collection presents a thoughtful dialogue between philosophy and contemporary scientific research. It offers the reader insight by illuminating the dark side of the emotions.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.4.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind
• Zusatzinfo: VI, 260 p. 7 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Schlagworte: aesthetic emotions • Affective Neurosciences • Aquinas on the benefits of disgust • discordance in Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit • Emotional Mind • Emotion awareness • Envy and competition in Aristotle’s Rhetoric • history of emotions • moral emotions • negative emotions • normative code of emotions • pathos of ridicule in Plato’s Dialogues • Philosophical fear and tragic fear • Philosophy of Emotions • prestige in the Hobbesian model • Shame and self-consciousness • social emotions • Valence
• ISBN-10: 3-030-55123-7 / 3030551237
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-55123-0 / 9783030551230