Moral Psychology of Sadness

Anna Gotlib is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College CUNY.

• 1. Dedication / 2. Acknowledgments / 3. Introduction: The Topographies of Sadness: An Introduction to The Moral Psychology of Sadness Anna Gotlib / Part I: The Phenomenologies of Sadness / 4. Untold Sorrow, Andrea Westlund / 5. “Should We Feel Sad About Scheffler’s Doomsday Scenario?”, Christine Vitrano / 6. “Sadness, Sense, and Sensibility,” Jamie Lindemann Nelson / 7. “I know that I'll be leaving soon: Sadness, Intersubjectivity, and the Lesson of Inside Out,” Claire Katz / Part II: Sadness and Other Emotions / 8. “Grief and Recovery,” Erica Preston-Roedder and Ryan Preston-Roedder / 9. “Forgiveness and The Moral Psychology of Sadness,” Jeffrey Blustein / Part III: Sadness and Nostalgia / 10. “Nostalgia and Mental Simulation,” Felipe De Brigard / 11. “Memory, Sadness and Longing: Exile Nostalgias as Attunement to Loss,” Anna Gotlib / 12. Index

In its fine exploration of different kinds or aspects of sadness—grief, heartbreak, nostalgia—this remarkable collection sheds entirely fresh light on an emotion to which philosophers have paid scant attention. Here we have an example of moral philosophy at its best.