Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I Sketching the Landscape
Chapter 1 The Place of the Emotions among the Passions
1. Passions, affections, and appetites
2. Agitations and moods
3. Emotions
Chapter 2 The Analytic of the Emotions I
1. The representation of emotions
2. The language of the emotions
3. Expressions and manifestations of emotion
4. Emotion, cognition, and the will
Chapter 3 The Analytic of the Emotions II
1. The epistemology of the emotions
2. Emotion and reason
3. The place of the emotions in human life
Chapter 4 The Dialectic of the Emotions
1. The Cartesian and empiricist legacies and their invalidation
2. Philosophical and psychological confusions: James
3. Neuroscientific confusions: Damasio and the somatic marker hypothesis
4. Evolutionary accounts of the emotions: Darwin and Ekman
5. The quest for basic emotions
Part II Human, All Too Human
Chapter 5 Pride, Arrogance, and Humility
1. The web of pride
2. Shifting evaluations of pride
3. Pride: connective analysis
Chapter 6 Shame, Embarrassment, and Guilt
1. Shame cultures and guilt cultures
2. Shame and embarrassment: connective analysis
3. Guilt: connective analysis
Chapter 7 Envy
1. Envy and jealousy: a pair of vicious emotions.
2. Envy and jealousy: conceptual unclarity
3. Envy and jealousy: their conceptual roots
4. Envy: iconography, mythology, and iconology
5. Envy: connective analysis
Chapter 8 Jealousy
1. Different centres of variation
2. Iconography
3. Jealousy: connective analysis
4. Jealousy and envy again
Chapter 9 Anger
1. The phenomena of anger
2. The vocabulary of anger
3. Anger: connective analysis
4. Conceptions of anger in antiquity
5. Is acting in anger warranted?
Part III The Saving Graces: Love, Friendship, and Sympathy
Chapter 10 Love
1. Concepts and conceptions of love
2. The biological and social roots of love
3. The objects of love
4. Historico-normative constraints
5. The phases of love
6. The web of concepts of love
7. The iconography of love
8. Connective analysis I: categorial complexity
9. Connective analysis II: peculiarities of love as an emotion
10. Connective analysis III: some characteristic features of love
11. Self-love
Chapter 11 Friendship
1. Friendship and love
2. The roots and marks of different forms of friendship
3. Analysis of the relation
4. Friendship, virtue, and morality
Chapter 12 Sympathy and Empathy
1. Sympathy: the historical background
2. The analysis of sympathy
3. Empathy: from Einfühlung to mirror-neurons
4. Empathy and sympathy
5. Envoi
Appendix Moments in the History of Love
1. The history of love
2. Ancient Israel
3. Ancient Greece
4. From pagan Rome to Christian Rome
5. Early Christianity
6. The deification of love
Index
