The Moral Psychology of Sadness
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- Publisher:
- 2017
Summary
What does it mean to be sad? What difference does it make whether, how, and why we experience our own, and other people’s, sadness? Is sadness always appropriate and can it be a way of seeing more clearly into ourselves and others?
In this volume, a multi-disciplinary team of scholars - from fields including philosophy, women’s and gender studies, bioethics and public health, and neuroscience - addresses these and other questions related to this nearly-universal emotion that all of us experience, and that some of us dread. Somewhat surprisingly, sadness has been largely ignored by philosophers and others within the humanities, or else under-theorized as a subject worthy of serious and careful attention. This volume reverses this trend, presenting sadness as not merely a feeling or affect, but an emotion of great moral significance that in important ways underwrites how we understand ourselves and each other.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2017
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-78348-861-2
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-78348-862-9
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 216
- Product type
- Edited Book
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- The Topographies of Sadness No access Pages 1 - 18
- Chapter 1 Untold Sorrow No access
- Chapter 2 Should We Feel Sad about Scheffler’s Doomsday Scenario? No access
- Chapter 3 Sadness, Sense, and Sensibility No access
- Chapter 4 Sadness, Intersubjectivity, and the Lesson of No access
- Chapter 5 Grief and Recovery No access
- Chapter 6 Forgiveness and the Moral Psychology of Sadness1 No access
- Chapter 7 Nostalgia and Mental Simulation1 No access
- Chapter 8 Memory, Sadness, and Longing No access
- Index No access Pages 207 - 212
- About the Contributors No access Pages 213 - 216





