Ashley Atkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 264363 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashley Atkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashley |
| FAMILY NAME | Atkins |
| SIGNATURE | ATKINS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Michigan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5455-9366 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Imagining the End
Grief Worlds
Journal Article Grief Worlds: A Study of Emotional Experience Get access Grief Worlds: A Study of Emotional Experience. By Matthew Ratcliffe. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2023. Pp. ix + 286. Price $45.00.) Ashley Atkins Ashley Atkins Western Michigan University, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, pqad085, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqad085 Published: 11 September 2023 Article histor…
Race and the Politics of Loss
This paper explores the idea that mourning can help us to bear not only personal but also political losses. It focuses, in particular, on the proposal that legacies of racial loss and violence should be collectively mourned. I argue that Mamie Till Mobley was developing such a proposal in 1955, the year her son Emmett Till was lynched and in which she brought his body before all Americans, calling on them to look at it so that they might, togethe…
On grief's sweet sorrow
This paper draws attention to a neglected aspect of grief: its “sweet” sorrow. This sorrow presents us with a formidable challenge, namely, to explain how what is bitter—the misery of loss—can be found to be sweet. Those drawn into this sorrow suspect that it is somehow too sweet. Are their suspicions well founded? Why is it and it alone sweet to those who delight in it and why is it not just sweet but companion‐like and even dear? Guided by the …
On Grief's Wandering Thought
This paper challenges an orthodoxy in recent philosophical discussions of grief, namely, that grief is essentially tied to the thought that a person of significance to oneself has died. As first‐person reports make clear, one can find oneself cut off from the significant other not simply in body but also in thought . This is not, moreover, an isolated difficulty but one that may have repercussions for one's capacity to form an outlook on the soci…
Mourning work
Mourning work
Race and the Politics of Loss
This paper explores the idea that mourning can help us to bear not only personal but also political losses. It focuses, in particular, on the proposal that legacies of racial loss and violence should be collectively mourned. I argue that Mamie Till Mobley was developing such a proposal in 1955, the year her son Emmett Till was lynched and in which she brought his body before all Americans, calling on them to look at it so that they might, togethe…
On grief's sweet sorrow
This paper draws attention to a neglected aspect of grief: its “sweet” sorrow. This sorrow presents us with a formidable challenge, namely, to explain how what is bitter—the misery of loss—can be found to be sweet. Those drawn into this sorrow suspect that it is somehow too sweet. Are their suspicions well founded? Why is it and it alone sweet to those who delight in it and why is it not just sweet but companion‐like and even dear? Guided by the …
On Grief's Wandering Thought
This paper challenges an orthodoxy in recent philosophical discussions of grief, namely, that grief is essentially tied to the thought that a person of significance to oneself has died. As first‐person reports make clear, one can find oneself cut off from the significant other not simply in body but also in thought . This is not, moreover, an isolated difficulty but one that may have repercussions for one's capacity to form an outlook on the soci…
Imagining the End
Grief Worlds
Journal Article Grief Worlds: A Study of Emotional Experience Get access Grief Worlds: A Study of Emotional Experience. By Matthew Ratcliffe. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2023. Pp. ix + 286. Price $45.00.) Ashley Atkins Ashley Atkins Western Michigan University, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, pqad085, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqad085 Published: 11 September 2023 Article histor…
Psychology (5 works) · Grief (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (3 works) · Psychotherapist (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works)