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NIGHT VISION - MARIANA ALESSANDRI GEBUNDEN

The state of the world makes it difficult to look on the bright side. If there is a bright side
perhaps it is that we have come to see the virtues of previously taboo emotions such as anger 
sadness  anguish  anxiety  and grief. According to philosopher Mariana Alessandri  we're
beginning to see that they are not evils to be avoided but valuable and sometimes even
productive states. Many of us are coming to see that our darker feelings have something to
teach us about ourselves  others  and what it is to be human. However  many of us don't know
how to feel about what we're beginning to let ourselves feel. She asks: Is it (still) wrong for
women to be angry? Is anxiety something we talk about openly now? Can we cry without
apologizing yet? Our emotional landscape has been shifting  but no one's guiding us. As
Alessandri says  we need someone to help us grope around in the dark until our eyes adjust. In
this book  Alessandri aims to explore these emotions and use philosophy to remove the stigma
that still attaches to dark feelings. When we embrace our difficult feelings  she argues  we
realize that hidden within them can be found wit and humor  closeness and warmth  connection
and purpose  mission and motivation  empathy and self-knowledge  accuracy and communion.
Drawing on philosophers and thinkers from Aristotle to Kierkegaard and Miguel de Unamuno to
C.S. Lewis as well as contemporary philosophers such as Gloria Anzaldâua  Maria Lugones and
bell hooks (as well as Fred Mister Rogers  more below!)  Alessandri aims show how these
thinkers helped to restore dignity to these feelings. Like them her aim is not to correct us
but to help us feel  understand  and honor our sometimes painful emotions--

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