Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
Pages: 226
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Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-78348-860-5 • Hardback • November 2017 • $146.00 • (£112.00)
978-1-78348-862-9 • eBook • November 2017 • $42.50 • (£33.00)
Anna Gotlib is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College CUNY.
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
In its fine exploration of different kinds or aspects of sadness—grief, heartbreak, nostalgia—this remarkable collection sheds entirely fresh light on an emotion to which philosophers have paid scant attention. Here we have an example of moral philosophy at its best.
— Hilde Lindemann, Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University
In the moral psychology literature, much has been written about happiness and almost nothing about sadness. Anna Gotlib’s edited volume on the moral psychology of sadness fills a significant gap in the literature by conveying a variety of ways that sadness as an emotion plays a crucial role in our moral lives.
— Peggy DesAutels, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton and Director of the American Philosophical Association Committee on the Status of Women
This lively and bold collection explores oft-neglected issues in philosophy that relate to negative and positive facets of sadness, including what grieving is, whether short-term sadness after a loved one’s death is problematic, what matters to us when death is imminent, whether sadness can be good for us, and the meaning of nostalgia. Thought-provoking and tugs at the heart strings.
— Anita Superson, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky