This volume brings together fourteen chapters on negative emotions, written in a highly accessible style for non-specialists and specialists alike.

Christine Tappolet is Full Professor at the Département de philosophie at the Université de Montréal. Her research interests lie mainly in ethics, moral psychology, and emotion theory. She has edited a number of volumes, including, with Sarah Stroud, Weakness of Will and Practical Rationality (2003), and is the author of two books, Émotions et valeurs (2000), and Emotions, Values, and Agency (2016).

Fabrice Teroni is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Geneva. He has published several articles and monographs on the general theory of emotions (The Emotions: A Philosophical Introduction, Routledge 2012), on the nature of shame (In Defense of Shame: The Faces of an Emotion, 2011) and on memory. He has recently edited, with Hichem Naar, The Ontology of Emotions (2017).

Anita Konzelmann Ziv was Senior Research and Teaching Assistant in the Philosophy Department at the University of Geneva. Her research focuses on shared and moral emotions. She co-edited Self-Evaluation - Affective and Social Grounds of Intentionality (2011) and Institutions, Emotions, and Group Agents: Contributions to Social Ontology (2013).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1. Emotionally Charged: The Puzzle of Affective Valence

Fabrice Teroni

2. Nasty Emotions and the Perception of Values

Christine Tappolet

3. Imaginative Resistance: Negative Emotions, Values and Fiction

Anne Reboul

4. Who is Afraid of Contrary Emotions?

Clotilde Calabi and Marco Santambrogio

5. Bitter Joys and Sweet Sorrows

Olivier Massin

6. The Emotion of Being Moved

Julien A. Deonna

7. The Uncanny and Other Negative Existential Feelings

Jérôme Dokic

8. Disgustingly handsome: Nausea in the Face of Physical Beauty

Anita Konzelmann Ziv

9. Stench and Olfactory Disgust

Vivian Mizrahi

10. Anxiety: A Case Study on the Value of Negative Emotion

Charlie Kurth

11. Grief

Carolyn Price

12. The Moral Shadows of Shame and Contempt

Raffaele Rodogno

13. Negative Emotions and Racism

Luc Faucher

14. How to Think Yourself Out of Jealousy

Ronald de Sousa