Grief Worlds

A Study of Emotional Experience

Matthew Ratcliffe

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MIT Press
14 March 2023

Psychology: emotions

A wide-ranging philosophical exploration of what it is to experience grief and what this tells us about human emotional life.

A wide-ranging philosophical exploration of what it is to experience grief and what this tells us about human emotional life.

Experiences 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? Grief Worlds explores a host of philosophical questions raised by grief, showing how philosophical inquiry can enhance our understanding of grief and vice versa.

Throughout the book, Matthew Ratcliffe focuses on the phenomenology 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.

By: Matthew Ratcliffe
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9780262544801
ISBN 10: 0262544806
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 14 March 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments vii 1 Introduction 1 2 The Structure of Grief 17 3 Grief and the Body 43 4 Between Worlds 79 5 Experiencing the Dead 109 6 Retention and Loss 133 7 Interpersonal Emotion Regulation 163 8 Trajectories of Grief 185 9 The Phenomenological Significance of Grief 217 Appendix: Details of Phenomenological Survey 227 Notes 233 References 255 Index 275

Matthew Ratcliffe is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York, UK. Other books he has authored include Real Hallucinations- Psychiatric Illness, Intentionality, and the Interpersonal World, also from the MIT Press.

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