The Moral Psychology of Envy: : Alfred Archer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The Moral Psychology of Envy

Description

Envy is a vicious and shameful response to the good fortune of others, one that ruins friendships and plagues societies—or so the common thinking goes, shaped by millennia of religious and cultural condemnation. Envy’s bad reputation is not completely unwarranted; envy can indeed motivate malicious and counterproductive behavior and may strain or even tear apart relations between people. However, that is not always the case. Investigating the complex nature of this emotion reveals that it plays important functions in social hierarchies and it can motivate one to self-improve and even to achieve moral virtue.
Philosophers and psychologists in this volume explore envy’s characteristics in different cultures, spanning from small hunter-gatherer communities to large industrialized countries, to contexts as diverse as academia, marketing, artificial intelligence, and Buddhism. They explore envy’s role in both the personal and the political sphere, showing the many ways in which envy can either contribute or detract to our flourishing as individuals and as citizens of modern democracies.

Introduction: Striving to Be Better, Sulking in a Corner, Stealing the Spotlight, Spoiling Someone's Joy: The Many Faces of Envy by Sara Protasi
1. A Sociocultural Perspective on Envy: On Covetous Desire, the Evil Eye, and the Social Regulation of Equality by Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera
2. How Envy and Being Envied Shape Social Hierarchies by Jens Lange and Jan Crusius
3. On the Epistemic Effects of Envy in Academia by Felipe Romero
4. “I could have been you”: Existential Envy and the Self by Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
5. Envy, Compassion and the Buddhist (No)Self by Christina Chuang
6. Let the Donkeys Be Donkeys: In Defense of Inspiring Envy by Maria Silvia Vaccarezza and Ariele Niccoli
7. Malicious Moral Envy by Vanessa Carbonell
8. “You're Just Jealous!”: On Envious Blame by Neal Tognazzini
9. The Fact of Envy: Trends in the History of Modern Economics by Miriam Bankovsky
10. The Politics of Envy: Outlaw Emotions in Capitalist Societies by Alfred Archer, Alan Thomas and Bart Engelen
11. To Envy an A

Product details

Published	22 Aug 2022
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	258
ISBN	9781538160060
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations	2 tables; 3 charts;
Dimensions	239 x 159 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Sara Protasi

Contributor

Alfred Archer

Contributor

Miriam Bankovsky

Contributor

Vanessa Carbonell

Contributor

Christina Chuang

Contributor

Jan Crusius

Contributor

Bart Engelen

Contributor

Alison Duncan Kerr

Contributor

Jens Lange

Contributor

Ariele Niccoli

Contributor

Sara Protasi

Contributor

Patricia M. Rodriguez Mosquera

Contributor

Felipe Romero

Contributor

Alan Thomas

Contributor

Neal A. Tognazzini

Contributor

Maria Silvia Vaccarezza

Contributor

Niels van de Ven

ÍF

Contributor

Íngrid Vendrell Ferran

The Moral Psychology of Envy is a must-read for anyone seriously interested in rehabilitating envy as a morally valuable emotion. It paints a nuanced and refreshing picture of envy’s contribution to individual and collective flourishing.

Catherine Rioux, assistant professor, Université Laval
Sara Protasi deserves the thanks of every philosopher working on the moral psychology of envy for putting together this admirably wide-ranging and adventurous collection of new research.

Sophie Grace Chappell, professor of philosophy, The Open University UK