Shadows of the soul : philosophical perspectives on negative emotions

Emotionally charged : the puzzle of affective valence / Fabrice Teroni -- Nasty emotions and the perception of values / Christine Tappolet -- Imaginative resistance : negative emotions, values and fiction / Anne Reboul -- Who is afraid of contrary emotions? / Clotilde Calabi, Marco Santambrogio -- Bitter joys and sweet sorrows / Oliver Massin -- The emotion of being moved / Julien A. Deonna -- The uncanny and other negative existential feelings / Jerome Doric -- Disgustingly handsome : nausea in the face of physical beauty / Anita Konzelmann Ziv -- Stench and olfactory disgust / Vivian Mizrahi -- Anxiety : a case study on the value of negative emotion / Charlie Kurth -- Grief / Carolyn Price -- The moral shadows of shame and contempt / Raffaele Rodogno -- Negative emotions and racism / Luc Faucher -- How to think yourself out of jealousy / Ronald De Sousa "Negative emotions are familiar enough, but they have rarely been a topic of study in their own right. This volume brings together fourteen chapters on negative emotions, written in a highly accessible style for non-specialists and specialists alike. It starts with chapters on general issues raised by negative emotions, such as the nature of valence, the theoretical implications of nasty emotions, the role of negative emotions in fiction, as well as the puzzles raised by ambivalent and mixed emotions. The second part of the volume consists of studies of specific emotional phenomena, ranging from the emotion of being moved and the sense of uncanniness to jealousy, hatred, shame, contempt, anxiety, and grief. "--Provided by publisher "Negative emotions are familiar enough, but they have rarely been a topic of study in their own right. This volume brings together fourteen chapters on negative emotions, written in a highly accessible style for non-specialists and specialists alike. It starts with chapters on general issues raised by negative emotions, such as the nature of valence, the theoretical implications of nasty emotions, the role of negative emotions in fiction, as well as the puzzles raised by ambivalent and mixed emotions. The second part of the volume consists of studies of specific emotional phenomena, ranging from the emotion of being moved and the sense of uncanniness to jealousy, hatred, shame, contempt, anxiety, and grief."--Résumé de l'éditeur