This interdisciplinary volume brings together specialists from different backgrounds to deliver expert views on the relationship between morality and emotion, putting a special emphasis on issues related to emotional shocks.

One of the distinctive aspects of social existence today is our subjection to traumatic events on a global scale, and our subsequent embodiment of the emotional responses these events provoke. Covering various methodological angles, the contributors ensure careful and heterogeneous reflection on this delicate topic. With eleven original essays, the collection spans a wide variety of fields from philosophy and literary theory, to the visual arts, history, and psychology. The authors cover diverse themes including, philosophical approaches to political polarization; the impact of negative emotions such as anger on inter-relational balance; humour and politics; media and the idea of progress; photography and trauma discourse; democratic moralityin modern Indian society; emotional olfactory experiences; phenomenological readings of spatial disorientation, and the significance of moral shocks. This timely volume offers crucial perspectives on contemporary questions relating to ethical behaviours, and the challenges of a globalized society on the verge of political, financial and emotional collapse.

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Ana Falcato, PhD, is a Research Fellow at IFILNOVA, where she explores the novelistic and critical work of J.M. Coetzee. Dr Falcato was Humboldt Research Fellow at the Johannes-Gutenberg University and the University of Oxford between 2013 and 2015. Her work has appeared in various journals including Studies in the Novel, Hypatia, and Wittgensetin-Studien. She is the author of Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism (2018) and co-editor (with Luís Aguiar e Sousa) of Phenomenological Approaches to Intersubjectivity and Values (2019).

Sara Graça da Silva, PhD, is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition, NOVA/FCSH. Her research interests include the intersection between literature and science, gender, morality, emotion, and the evolutionary study of literature. She has contributed to The Victorian Literature Handbook, The Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism, National Geographic, among others, and published in journals including Utopian Studies, Royal Society Open Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. She is the editor of Morality and Emotion (2016) and New Interdisciplinary Landscapes in Morality and Emotion (2018).

Inhalt
Introduction
Ana Falcato and Sara Graça da SilvaEmotion and Political Polarization Jesse PrinzThe Efficacy of Anger: Recognition and Retribution Laura Luz SilvaEmotional Shockwaves, Populist Mode of Humour andPost-Truth Politics Javier Gil and Sergio BreaNegativity in Contemporary Journalism Towards Civic andMaterial Progress João N. S. AlmeidaPerverse Witness: The Role of Photography and ShockCompulsion in Contemporary Trauma Discourse Hannah R. BaconContentsx ContentsShockwaves of Rape and Shattering of Power in theContemporary Indian Web Series: The Case of Delhi Crime,Made in Heaven, and Judgement Day Shuhita BhattacharjeeYou Stink! Smell and Moralisation of the Other Sara Graça da SilvaThe Moral Significance of Shock Oded Na'amanEmotional Shock and Ethical Conversion Ana FalcatoMaking and Breaking Our Shared World: A PhenomenologicalAnalysis of Disorientation as a Way of UnderstandingCollective Emotions in Distributed Cognition Pablo Fernández Velasco and Roberto CasatiThe Radiant Indifference of Being: The Mystic Fable of ThePassion According to G.H. Nicolas de WarrenIndex