# Shadows of the soul edited by... **Opening (not a real abstract):** This volume brings together fourteen highly accessible chapters on negative emotions, written by established experts in the philosophy of emotions for a non-specialized audience. Topics covered range from general questions, such as the nature of valence and the role of negative emotions in fiction, to the study of specific emotions, such as disgust, grief, anxiety, shame, contempt, hatred and jealousy. Christine Tappolet is Full Professor at the Département de philosophie at the Université de Montréal. Her research interests lie mainly in ethics, moral psychology, and emotion theory. She has edited a number of volumes, including, with Sarah Stroud, Weakness of Will and Practical Rationality (2003), and is the author of two books, Émotions et valeurs (2000) and Emotions, Values, and Agency (2016).