{"product_id":"grief-worlds-isbn-9780262544801","title":"Grief Worlds","description":"\u003cb\u003eA wide-ranging philosophical exploration of what it is to experience grief and what this tells us about human emotional life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExperiences of grief can be bewildering, disorienting, and isolating; everything seems somehow different, in ways that are difficult to comprehend and describe. Why does the world as a whole look distant, strange, and unfamiliar? How can we know that someone is dead, while at the same time find this utterly unfathomable, impossible? \u003ci\u003eGrief Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e explores a host of philosophical questions raised by grief, showing how philosophical inquiry can enhance our understanding of grief and vice versa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout the book, Matthew Ratcliffe focuses on the \u003ci\u003ephenomenology\u003c\/i\u003e of grief: what do experiences of grief consist of, how are they structured, and what can they tell us about the nature of human experience more generally? While acknowledging the diversity of grief, Ratcliffe sets out to identify its common features. Drawing extensively on first-person accounts, he proposes that grief is a process that involves experiencing, comprehending, and navigating a pervasive disturbance of one’s experiential world. Its course over time depends on ways of experiencing and relating to other people, both the living and the dead. Along with its insights into the workings of grief, the book provides us with a broader philosophical perspective for thinking about human emotional experience.Acknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e2 The Structure of Grief 17\u003cbr\u003e3 Grief and the Body 43\u003cbr\u003e4 Between Worlds 79\u003cbr\u003e5 Experiencing the Dead 109\u003cbr\u003e6 Retention and Loss 133\u003cbr\u003e7 Interpersonal Emotion Regulation 163\u003cbr\u003e8 Trajectories of Grief 185\u003cbr\u003e9 The Phenomenological Significance of Grief 217\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Details of Phenomenological Survey 227\u003cbr\u003eNotes 233\u003cbr\u003eReferences 255\u003cbr\u003eIndex 275“\u003ci\u003eGrief Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e is a lucid, richly detailed an absolutely unique contribution to the emerging field of a philosophy of grief. Matthew Ratcliffe persuasively argues that what unifies grief as an experience, is the suffering associated with a comprehensive loss of life possibilities. \u003ci\u003eGrief Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for anybody interested in the philosophy of grief and will undoubtedly be a key point of reference in the fast-growing field of phenomenological research on grief in years to come.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Allan Køster, Ph.D., Senior Researcher at the National Center for Grief, Denmark\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rejecting the common conception of emotion as short-term and clearly focused, Matthew Ratcliffe takes grief as the paradigm emotion.  In this breathtakingly attentive phenomenological analysis, he lays out the intricacies of the grief experience, explaining such perplexities as why disbelief and awareness of loss are compatible and why bereavement hallucinations are so common.  He also demonstrates how consideration of grief illuminates emotional life, interpersonal relationships, and even philosophical method.  Anyone interested in any of these topics will want to read this book.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kathleen Higgins, Professor of Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin\u003c\/b\u003eMatthew Ratcliffe is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York, UK. Other books he has authored include \u003ci\u003eReal Hallucinations: Psychiatric Illness, Intentionality, and the Interpersonal World\u003c\/i\u003e, also from the MIT Press.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301360324837,"sku":"NP9780262544801","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262544801.jpg?v=1767728504","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/grief-worlds-isbn-9780262544801","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}