Historical perspectives. Tragic pleasures in Plato and Aristotle / Pierre Destrée
The paradox of negative emotion in art in enlightenment aesthetics / Carole Talon-Hugon
A lust of the mind: curiosity and aversion in 18th century British aesthetics / Carolyn Korsmeyer
Mere suffering: Hume and the problem of tragedy / Christopher Williams
The problem and promise of the sublime: lessons from Kant and Schopenhauer / Sandra Shapshay
Contemporary perspectives. A simple solution to the paradox of negative emotion / Raf DeClercq
Painful art and the limits of well-being / Aaron Smuts
That obscure object of desire: pleasure in painful art / Jonathan Gilmore
Playing with fire: art and the seductive power of pain / Iskra Fileva
Poetic pains: how poetry hurts and heals / Anna Ribeiro
Negative emotions and creativity / Derek Matravers
Attention, negative valence, and tragic emotions / Cain Todd
Watching the unwatchable: 'irreversible', 'empire', and the other paradox of negative emotions / David Davies.
Suffering art gladly : the paradox of negative emotion in art. ISBN 9780230349834. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.