Contents Prefacexi Acknowledgementsxvii Part I Sketching the Landscape 1 Chapter 1 The Place of the Emotions among the Passions 3 1. Passions, affections, and appetites 3 2. Agitations and moods 14 3. Emotions 22 Chapter 2 The Analytic of the Emotions I 37 1. The representation of emotions 37 2. The language of the emotions 40 3. Expressions and manifestations of emotion 45 4. Emotion, cognition, and the will 56 Chapter 3 The Analytic of the Emotions II 60 1.
The epistemology of the emotions 60 2. Emotion and reason 67 3. The place of the emotions in human life 77 Chapter 4 The Dialectic of the Emotions 83 1. The Cartesian and empiricist legacies and their invalidation 83 2. Philosophical and psychological confusions: James 97 3. Neuroscientific confusions: Damasio and the somatic marker hypothesis 103 4. Evolutionary accounts of the emotions: Darwin and Ekman111 5. The quest for basic emotions 115 Part II Human, All Too Human 129 Chapter 5 Pride, Arrogance, and Humility 131 1.
The web of pride 131 2. Shifting evaluations of pride 135 3. Pride: connective analysis 140 Chapter 6 Shame, Embarrassment, and Guilt 152 1. Shame cultures and guilt cultures 152 2. Shame and embarrassment: connective analysis 157 3. Guilt: connective analysis 173 Chapter 7 Envy 183 1. Envy and jealousy: a pair of vicious emotions 183 2. Envy and jealousy: conceptual unclarity 187 3.
Envy and jealousy: their conceptual roots 192 4. Envy: iconography, mythology, and iconology 197 5. Envy: connective analysis 200 Chapter 8 Jealousy 208 1. Different centres of variation 208 2. Iconography 215 3. Jealousy: connective analysis 216 4. Jealousy and envy again 228 Chapter 9 Anger 232 1. The phenomena of anger 232 2.
The vocabulary of anger 235 3. Anger: connective analysis 239 4. Conceptions of anger in antiquity 253 5. Is acting in anger warranted? 259 Part III The Saving Graces: Love, Friendship, and Sympathy 265 Chapter 10 Love 267 1. Concepts and conceptions of love 267 2. The biological and social roots of love 269 3. The objects of love 274 4. Historiconormative constraints 279 5.
The phases of love 282 6. The web of concepts of love 287 7. The iconography of love 294 8. Connective analysis I: categorial complexity 298 9. Connective analysis II: peculiarities of love as an emotion 304 10. Connective analysis III: some characteristic features of love316 11. Selflove 324 Chapter 11 Friendship 327 1. Friendship and love 327 2.
The roots and marks of different forms of friendship 336 3. Analysis of the relation 345 4. Friendship, virtue, and morality 350 Chapter 12 Sympathy and Empathy 357 1. Sympathy: the historical background 357 2. The analysis of sympathy 367 3. Empathy: from Einfühlung to mirror neurons 377 4. Empathy and sympathy 385 5. Envoi 392 Appendix: Moments in the History of Love 393 1.
The history of love 393 2. Ancient Israel 395 3. Ancient Greece 402 4. From pagan Rome to Christian Rome 410 5. Early Christianity 417 6. The deification of love 426 Index 438 reface xi Acknowledgements xvii Part I Sketching the Landscape 1 Chapter 1 The Place of the Emotions among the Passions 3 1. Passions, affections, and appetites 3 2. Agitations and moods 14 3.
Emotions 22 Chapter 2 The Analytic of the Emotions I 37 1. The representation of emotions 37 2. The language of the emotions 40 3. Expressions and manifestations of emotion 45 4. Emotion, cognition, and the will 56 Chapter 3 The Analytic of the Emotions II 60 1. The epistemology of the emotions 60 2. Emotion and reason 67 3. The place of the emotions in human life 77 Chapter 4 The Dialectic of the Emotions 83 1.
The Cartesian and empiricist legacies and their invalidation 83 2. Philosophical and psychological confusions: James 97 3. Neuroscientific confusions: Damasio and the somatic marker hypothesis 103 4. Evolutionary accounts of the emotions: Darwin and Ekman 111 5. The quest for basic emotions 115 Part II Human, All Too Human 129 Chapter 5 Pride, Arrogance, and Humility 131 1. The web of pride 131 2. Shifting evaluations of pride 135 3. Pride: connective analysis 140 Chapter 6 Shame, Embarrassment, and Guilt 152 1.
Shame cultures and guilt cultures 152 2. Shame and embarrassment: connective analysis 157 3. Guilt: connective analysis 173 Chapter 7 Envy 183 1. Envy and jealousy: a pair of vicious emotions 183 2. Envy and jealousy: conceptual unclarity 187 3. Envy and jealousy: their conceptual roots 192 4. Envy: iconography, mythology, and iconology 197 5. Envy: connective analysis 200 Chapter 8 Jealousy 208 1.
Different centres of variation 208 2. Iconography 215 3. Jealousy: connective analysis 216 4. Jealousy and envy again 228 Chapter 9 Anger 232 1. The phenomena of anger 232 2. The vocabulary of anger 235 3. Anger: connective analysis 239 4. Conceptions of anger in antiquity 253 5.
Is acting in anger warranted? 259 Part III The Saving Graces: Love, Friendship, and Sympathy 265 Chapter 10 Love 267 1. Concepts and conceptions of love 267 2. The biological and social roots of love 269 3. The objects of love 274 4. Historiconormative constraints 279 5. The phases of love 282 6. The web of concepts of love 287 7. The iconography of love 294 8.
Connective analysis I: categorial complexity 298 9. Connective analysis II: peculiarities of love as an emotion 304 10. Connective analysis III: some characteristic features of love 316 11. Selflove 324 Chapter 11 Friendship 327 1. Friendship and love 327 2. The roots and marks of different forms of friendship 336 3. Analysis of the relation 345 4. Friendship, virtue, and morality 350 Chapter 12 Sympathy and Empathy 357 1.
Sympathy: the historical background 357 2. The analysis of sympathy 367 3. Empathy: from Einfühlung to mirror neurons 377 4. Empathy and sympathy 385 5. Envoi 392 Appendix: Moments in the History of Love 393 1. The history of love 393 2. Ancient Israel 395 3. Ancient Greece 402 4.
From pagan Rome to Christian Rome 410 5. Early Christianity 417 6. The deification of love 426 Index 438.