Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Studying Social Emotions in the History of Philosophy
2. Shame: Self‑Regulation, Moral Agency, and Social Fit
3. Humility and the Ethics of Self‑Governance
4. Envy: Social Comparison, Rivalry, and Emulation
5. Hope: Calculation of Difficulties and Resources
6. Compassion and Pity: From Co‑Feeling to Civic Practice
7. Love: Bonds, Orders, and Medieval Social Ontology
8. Anger: Relational Enforcement and Its Limits
9. Emotions, Self, and Others: Networks of Social Life
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Biography
Ritva Palmén is a Finnish Academy Research Fellow affiliated with the University of Helsinki and the University of Eastern Finland. Her research focuses on the history of philosophy, medieval philosophical theology, and philosophical approaches to emotion. Her recent publications include the co‑edited volumes History of Mind: Studies in the Philosophy of Simo Knuuttila (2024) and Recognition and Religion: Contemporary and Historical Studies (2019). She is the author of the monograph Richard of St. Victor’s Theory of Imagination (2014) and has published articles in leading international journals, including Speculum and the Journal for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
