The Dark Side: Philosophical Reflections on the “Negative Emotions” (Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind, 25)

Contents
Chapter 1: The Structural Ambivalence of Emotional Valence: An Introduction
	References
Chapter 2: The Subtle Interplay Between Disgust and Morality: Miasma as a Case Study
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Miasma: A Multifaceted Concept
	2.3 Conceiving Pollution
	2.4 Revolting miasma
	2.5 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 3: Shame and Self-Consciousness in Plato’s Symposium: Reversals of Meaning of a Social Emotion
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Ancient Passions and Virtues. Honour, Anger and Shame
		3.2.1 Between Courage and Fear: The Role of Shame
	3.3 Athens: A Shame Culture?
	3.4 Why the Symposium? A Neglected Route
	3.5 Two Passages on Shame in the Symposium: 178a6–185c3 (Phaedrus and Pausanias’ Speeches) and 214b3–222b6 (Alcibiades’ Speech)
		3.5.1 An Old-Fashioned Kind of Shame
		3.5.2 A New Model of Shame
			3.5.2.1 Alcibiades’ Divided Conscience
	3.6 Are There Advances of Self-Consciousness in a Shame Culture?
	3.7 Conclusion: Plato and Shame as an Expression of the Intersubjective Roots of Morality
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Chapter 4: The pathos of Ridicule (to geloion) in Plato’s Dialogues
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 To geloion as pathos
	4.3 The Place of Ridicule in the Platonic City: The Republic and the Laws
	4.4 The pathe of Platonic Dialogues: Philosophical Ridicule
	4.5 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: Envy and Rivalry in Aristotle’s Rhetoric
	5.1 Aristotle’s Discussion of the Emotions in Book 2 of the Rhetoric
	5.2 Envy
	5.3 Feeling Outraged
	5.4 Outrage and Envy
	5.5 The Principle of Merit
	5.6 Emulation
	5.7 Competitive Emotions in the Athenian Public Discourse
	5.8 Conclusions: Aristotle’s Redefinition of the Language of Competitive Emotions
	References
Chapter 6: Philosophical Fear and Tragic Fear: The Memory of Theatre in Plato’s Images and Aristotle’s Theory
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 The Fear of Tyrants and the Paradox of Tyrants
	6.3 Fear, Speeches, and Theatre: Aristotelian Stimuli and Anaesthetics
	6.4 Oresteia: Fear and Authority, Vengeance and Surveillance
	6.5 The Sophoclean Diptych of Oedipus: Fear, Transgression, Guilt, and Innocence
	6.6 From Theatre to Philosophy, and Back. Ancient and Modern Fears. Conclusions
	References
Chapter 7: An Optimistic Anger? From Antiquity to Descartes
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Ancient Anger Reinterpreted
	7.3 Thomas Aquinas: Anger, Hatred and Reason
	7.4 Transitions
	7.5 Modern Anger. Descartes, Cureau de la Chambre: ‘Anger is good for the health’
	7.6 Conclusions
	References
Chapter 8: Triumphs of the Mind. Hobbes and the Ambivalences of Glory
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 Power, Glory, and Honour
	8.3 The Dark Side of Recognition
	8.4 Afterlife
	References
Chapter 9: Where Is the Fury? On Hume’s Peculiar Account of Anger and Resentment
	9.1 Introduction
	9.2 An Emotional Empiricism
	9.3 Anger: but, Where Is the Fury?
	9.4 Angry, Thirsty, Sick, or “More than Five Foot High”
	9.5 Resentment, Proto-Morality, and Justice
	9.6 “Not in My Temper:” Hume’s Separateness from Anger
	9.7 Conclusive Remarks
	References
		Primary Sources
		Secondary Sources
Chapter 10: The Pleasure of Weeping: The Novelty of a Research
	10.1 Introduction
	10.2 The Tears of a Stranger
	10.3 Divert the Mind
	10.4 Artificial Passions
	10.5 Terror Is Fascinating
	10.6 Reality, Fiction, Illusion and the Paradox of Painful Art
	10.7 A Look at the Present
	10.8 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 11: Boredom, Temporality, and the Historical Dynamics of Abstract Negativity
	11.1 Introduction
	11.2 Boredom’s Historicity
	11.3 Metaphorics in the Metropolis
	11.4 Boredom’s Eternity
	11.5 Conclusions
	References
Chapter 12: Blushing with Shame: Toward a Hegelian Contribution on the Issue of the Positive Role of Negative Emotions
	12.1 Introduction
	12.2 The Expression of Shame in Hegel’s Anthropology
	12.3 Shame as a Practical Feeling in Hegel’s Psychology
	12.4 The Genesis of Shame
	12.5 Shame as the Origin of Clothing
	12.6 Conclusions
	References
Chapter 13: A Moral Algorithm. Toward a Neuropsychological Model of Shame
	13.1 Preview of This Chapter
	13.2 From a Social Emotion to a Moral Emotion
	13.3 Shame Compared to Guilt
	13.4 Adaptive and Maladaptive Aspects of Shame
	13.5 Cultural Differences
	13.6 Neural Bases of Shame
	13.7 Toward an Integrated Neuropsychological Model of Shame
	13.8 Conclusions
	References
Chapter 14: Anger Issues: The Nature and Complexity of Emotions and Emotional Valence
	14.1 Introduction
	14.2 What Are Emotions?
	14.3 The Nature and Origin of Emotional Feelings
	14.4 The Multiple and Ambiguous Valences of Emotions: Why This Matters?
	14.5 Conclusive Remarks
	References