1st Edition

A Phenomenological Analysis of Envy

By Michael Robert Kelly Copyright 2024
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides a phenomenological analysis of envy. The author’s account takes a descriptive look at the whole experience of envy as it pertains to the envier’s sense of self and the envied. Philosophical work on envy has predominately focused on how the envier perceives, thinks about, or schemes against the person envied. This book proposes a phenomenological analysis of envy that... Read more

Introduction: A Basic Overview of Envy and Phenomenology

Part I

1. Phenomenology of Emotion and Self-Awareness in Envy

2. An Envier Preoccupied with Himself in an Experience of Envy

3. An Envier Preoccupied with the Other in an Experience of Envy

Part II

4. Envy and Covetousness

5. Envy, Emulation, Indignation

6. Envy and Ressentiment

7. Envy and Two Types of Jealousy

Biography

Michael Robert Kelly is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego. He is author of Phenomenology and the Problem of Time (2016), editor of Bergson and Phenomenology (2010), and co-editor of Michel Henry: The Affects of Thought (2012), Early Phenomenology (2016), and Michel Henry’s Practical Philosophy (2022).

"...this is a good book that contains a very nuanced understanding of a complex emotion. I recommend it to anyone interested in philosophical views on envy."

Rob Compaijen, Protestant Theological University,The Review of Metaphysics