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| Introduction | |
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| Need and Recognition | |
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| Emotions as Judgments of Value | |
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| Need and Recognition | |
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| The Adversary: Intentionality, Belief, Evaluation | |
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| Necessity and Constituent Parthood | |
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| Judging and Acknowledging, and Sufficient Conditions | |
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| Eudaimonism, Intensity, the Personal Point of View | |
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| Are There Necessary Noncognitive Elements? | |
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| Are There Other Cognitive Elements? Imagining the Object | |
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| Background and Situational, General and Concrete | |
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| "Freshness" and the Diminution of Grief | |
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| Emotional Conflict | |
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| Humans and Other Animals: The Neo-Stoic View Revised | |
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| Animals Grieving | |
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| The Decline of Reductionist Theories of Emotion | |
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| The Resurgence of Intentionality: Seligman, Lazarus, Ortony, Oatley | |
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| Nonreductionistic Physiological Accounts: LeDoux, Damasio | |
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| Animal Emotion in Narrative Form: Pitcher | |
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| Revising the Neo-Stoic Account | |
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| Appetites, Moods, Desires for Action | |
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| Nonemotional Animals | |
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| Emotions and Human Societies | |
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| Grief and Social Norms | |
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| Human-Animal Differences: Time, Language, Norms | |
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| Sources of Social Variation | |
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| Types and Levels of Variation | |
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| American Grief | |
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| Culture and Understanding | |
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| Emotions and Infancy | |
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| The Shadow of the Object | |
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| The Golden Age: Helplessness, Omnipotence, Basic Needs | |
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| Early Emotions: "Holding," Love, Primitive Shame | |
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| Disgust and the Borders of the Body | |
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| Playing Alone, the Ambivalence Crisis, and the Moral Defense | |
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| "Mature Interdependence" and the Facilitating Environment | |
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| The Neo-Stoic View Revised Again | |
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| Imagination and Narrative | |
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| Interlude: "Things Such as Might Happen" | |
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| Music and Emotion | |
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| Expression and the Implied Listener | |
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| A Dilemma and Three Responses | |
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| Music as Dream | |
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| Music and Human Possibilities | |
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| The Kindertotenlieder: Loss and Helplessness | |
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| Compassion | |
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| Compassion: Tragic Predicaments | |
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| Emotions and Ethical Norms | |
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| The Cognitive Structure of Compassion | |
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| Empathy and Compassion | |
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| Compassion and Altruism | |
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| Impediments to Compassion: Shame, Envy, Disgust | |
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| Compassion and Tragedy | |
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| Compassion: The Philosophical Debate | |
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| Compassion and Reason | |
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| Three Classic Objections | |
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| Mercy without Compassion | |
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| Valuing External Goods | |
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| Partiality and Concern | |
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| Revenge and Mercy | |
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| Compassion and Public Life | |
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| Compassion and Institutions | |
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| Victims and Agents | |
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| Getting the Judgments Right | |
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| Implementing Rational Compassion: Moral and Civic Education | |
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| The Role of the Media | |
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| Political Leaders | |
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| Economic Thought: Welfare and Development | |
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| Legal Rationality: Equality, Criminal Sentencing | |
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| Ascents of Love | |
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| Ladders of Love: An Introduction | |
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| Love at Balbec | |
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| A Disease and Its Cure | |
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| The Philosophers' Dilemma | |
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| Pupils of the Ascent | |
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| The Neo-Stoic Theory and the Need for Narrative | |
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| Normative Criteria | |
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| Contemplative Creativity: Plato, Spinoza, Proust | |
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| Contemplative Ascent | |
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| Aristophanes: Love and Original Wholeness | |
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| Diotima: Love as Creation in the Fine and Good | |
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| Spinoza: The Bondage of the Passions | |
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| Spinoza: Freedom through Understanding | |
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| Proust: Using Individuals as Steps | |
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| The Pursuit of Wholeness | |
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| The Christian Ascent: Augustine | |
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| Omnipotence and the Sin of Pride | |
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| Hunger and Thirst | |
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| The Platonic Ladder and Rational Self-Sufficiency | |
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| Incompleteness and the Uncertainty of Grace | |
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| The Virtue of Longing | |
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| The Merely Provisional World | |
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| The Christian Ascent: Dante | |
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| Signs of the Old Love | |
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| Agency and the Romance of Grace | |
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| Perceiving the Individual | |
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| Christian Love Is Love | |
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| The Transformations of Beatitude | |
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| The Romantic Ascent: Emily Bronte | |
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| The Leap of Desire | |
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| Dark Outsiders | |
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| Lockwood's Shame | |
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| Pity and Charity | |
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| Our Own Heart, and Liberty | |
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| "Don't Let Me See Your Eyes" | |
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| Phantoms of Thought | |
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| The Romantic Ascent: Mahler | |
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| The Hot Striving of Love | |
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| The Redeeming Word | |
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| For the Sake of Striving Itself | |
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| The Self in Society | |
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| A Cry of Disgust | |
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| I Will Not Be Warned Off | |
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| The Unseen Light | |
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| Imagination and Justice | |
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| Democratic Desire: Walt Whitman | |
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| A Democracy of Love | |
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| "I Am He Attesting Sympathy" | |
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| A Counter-Cosmos: The Democratic Body | |
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| The Reclamation of the Body | |
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| Caressing Death | |
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| Mourning the Sun | |
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| The Transfiguration of Everyday Life: Joyce | |
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| Scholastic Questions | |
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| The Holy Office | |
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| A Dividual Chaos | |
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| "The Love that Might Have Been" | |
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| Bloom's Spinozistic Ascent | |
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| The Female Word | |
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| The Opposite of Hatred | |
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| Ascents of Love | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |