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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 | |