David Rondel is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nevada.Samir Chopra is philosophical counselor and professor emeritus of philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Moral Psychology of Anxiety by David Rondel and Samir ChopraPart I: Anxiety in the History of PhilosophyChapter 1: The Moral Psychology of Anxiety: A Stoic Perspective by Massimo PigliucciChapter 2: Not a Moment of Worry: Confucian Views on the Value of Anxiety by Leah KalmansonChapter 3: Anxiety, Curiosity, and the Fracturing of the Self: Descartes and Princess Elisabeth by Deborah J. BrownChapter 4: The Anguish of Ivan Karamazov by Mauro Rossi and Christine TappoletChapter 5: Prescription for Anxiety: A Sociohistorical Analysis by Ian DowbigginPart II: The Nature and Meaning of AnxietyChapter 6: Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Natural, Normative, or Neither? by Jesse PrinzChapter 7: Social Anxiety, Affordances, and Habitual Trust by Michelle MaieseChapter 8: Moral Anxiety: A Kantian Perspective by Charlie KurthChapter 9: The Epistemic Virtue of Anxiety by Juliette VazardChapter 10: Anxiety’s Allure by Michael S. BradyBibliographyAbout the Contributors

Is anxiety a medical illness, a philosophical problem, or a spiritual condition? Is it something to be understood in biological terms or as a cultural condition, a function of the times we live in? This wonderful, cross-disciplinary collection brings together contributions that tackle anxiety under one or more of these headings and advances our understanding of the good, the bad, and the ugly of anxiety.

David Rondel is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nevada.Samir Chopra is philosophical counselor and professor emeritus of philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Moral Psychology of Anxiety by David Rondel and Samir ChopraPart I: Anxiety in the History of PhilosophyChapter 1: The Moral Psychology of Anxiety: A Stoic Perspective by Massimo PigliucciChapter 2: Not a Moment of Worry: Confucian Views on the Value of Anxiety by Leah KalmansonChapter 3: Anxiety, Curiosity, and the Fracturing of the Self: Descartes and Princess Elisabeth by Deborah J. BrownChapter 4: The Anguish of Ivan Karamazov by Mauro Rossi and Christine TappoletChapter 5: Prescription for Anxiety: A Sociohistorical Analysis by Ian DowbigginPart II: The Nature and Meaning of AnxietyChapter 6: Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Natural, Normative, or Neither? by Jesse PrinzChapter 7: Social Anxiety, Affordances, and Habitual Trust by Michelle MaieseChapter 8: Moral Anxiety: A Kantian Perspective by Charlie KurthChapter 9: The Epistemic Virtue of Anxiety by Juliette VazardChapter 10: Anxiety’s Allure by Michael S. BradyBibliographyAbout the Contributors

Is anxiety a medical illness, a philosophical problem, or a spiritual condition? Is it something to be understood in biological terms or as a cultural condition, a function of the times we live in? This wonderful, cross-disciplinary collection brings together contributions that tackle anxiety under one or more of these headings and advances our understanding of the good, the bad, and the ugly of anxiety.

David Rondel is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nevada.Samir Chopra is philosophical counselor and professor emeritus of philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Moral Psychology of Anxiety by David Rondel and Samir ChopraPart I: Anxiety in the History of PhilosophyChapter 1: The Moral Psychology of Anxiety: A Stoic Perspective by Massimo PigliucciChapter 2: Not a Moment of Worry: Confucian Views on the Value of Anxiety by Leah KalmansonChapter 3: Anxiety, Curiosity, and the Fracturing of the Self: Descartes and Princess Elisabeth by Deborah J. BrownChapter 4: The Anguish of Ivan Karamazov by Mauro Rossi and Christine TappoletChapter 5: Prescription for Anxiety: A Sociohistorical Analysis by Ian DowbigginPart II: The Nature and Meaning of AnxietyChapter 6: Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Natural, Normative, or Neither? by Jesse PrinzChapter 7: Social Anxiety, Affordances, and Habitual Trust by Michelle MaieseChapter 8: Moral Anxiety: A Kantian Perspective by Charlie KurthChapter 9: The Epistemic Virtue of Anxiety by Juliette VazardChapter 10: Anxiety’s Allure by Michael S. BradyBibliographyAbout the Contributors

Is anxiety a medical illness, a philosophical problem, or a spiritual condition? Is it something to be understood in biological terms or as a cultural condition, a function of the times we live in? This wonderful, cross-disciplinary collection brings together contributions that tackle anxiety under one or more of these headings and advances our understanding of the good, the bad, and the ugly of anxiety.