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  1. Central to Nussbaum’s book Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (Cambridge UP, 2001) is an extended consideration of a highly personal experience of grief. The phrase “sorrow befalls” in Political Emotions is also an echo of this earlier work, in which Nussbaum explains that an affective attachment to someone or something will bring the person so attached “into fear, when it is threatened,” and “into grief, when catastrophe befalls it.” – Upheavals of Thought, 87.

  2. In her earlier book Love’s Knowledge (Oxford UP, 1990), Nussbaum displays sensitivity and good judgment in writing about why the human aspiration toward transcendence has an important place in our lives, and why it is prone to misfire: see, e.g., 378–380.

  3. See Upheavals of Thought, 254–265, 615–621.

  4. Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought, 65; see also 84.

  5. Upheavals of Thought, 40–45. The direct quotation is from page 41, and the emphasis is mine. There is an illuminating discussion of this problem by Matthew Ratcliffe, in Feelings of Being (Oxford UP, 2008), 26–28.

  6. See, e.g., Jesse J. Prinz, Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of Emotion (Oxford UP, 2004), 25–26: “cognitive theorists are united,” he assures us, in holding the view that “emotions are disembodied.”

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Furtak, R.A. Martha C. Nussbaum’s Political Emotions . Phenom Cogn Sci 13, 643–650 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-014-9389-4

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