Dark Side: Philosophical Reflections on the “Negative Emotions”

Nicolò Valentini obtained his doctorate in Philosophy at the University of Trento, Italy. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Exeter and Columbia University in New York (USA). He is currently working on the relation between olfaction and emotion and the moral and aesthetic value of disgust. Sara Dellantonio is a Senior Researcher at the University of Trento, Italy. Her main interests are in Philosophy of Psychology and the Cognitive Sciences. She obtained her doctorate at the University of Bremen (Germany) and has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York (USA) and at the University of Cardiff (UK). She has authored a number of articles and book chapters. Together with Luigi Pastore she recently authored a book for Springer on “Internal perception. The Role of Bodily Information in Concepts and Word Mastery”. Paola Giacomoni is Professor of the History of the University of Trento. Hermain scientific interests concern the relationship between philosophy and the sciences. She was research fellow in 2011 and invited professor in 2017 at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and at the Columbia University, New York, in 2015. She has published numerous essays internationally, several edited books, and five monographs.

• Chapter 1. Introduction (Paola Giacomoni, Sara Dellantonio, Nicolò Valentini).- Chapter 2. Philosophical Fear and Tragic Fear (Anna Beltrametti).- Chapter 3. The Pathos of Rridicule in Plato’s Dialogues (Martina Di Stefano).- Chapter 4. Shame and Self-Consciousness in Plato’s Symposium: Reversing the Meaning of a Social Emotion (Fulvia De Luise).- Chapter 5. Envy and Competition in Aristotle’s Rhetoric (Silvia Gastaldi).- Chapter 6. Aquinas on the Benefits of Disgust for the Sound use of Reason (Andrea Aldo Robiglio).- Chapter 7.- The Normative Code of Emotions: Christian Mythology and the Construction of a Normative Psychology (Emanuele Coccia).- Chapter 8. An Optimistic Anger? (Barbara Carnevali).- Chapter 9. The Pleasure of Weeping: The Novelty of Research (Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis).- Chapter 10. Blushing with Shame: The Feeling of the Discordance Between what I am and what I Ought to be in Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit (Caterina Maurer).- Chapter 11. The Subtle Interplay Between Disgust and Morality: Miasma as a Case Study (Nicolò Valentini).- Chapter 12. How Shame Guides our Lives. Historical, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives (Alessandro Grecucci).- Chapter 13. The Negative Effects of the Missing Emotion Awareness: The case of Alexithymia (Luigi Pastore, Sara Dellantonio).