Talks at Google27 Jun 2023

Ep358 - Mariana Alessandri | Seeing Ourselves through Dark Moods

Associate professor of philosophy Mariana Alessandri visits Google to discuss her book "Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves through Dark Moods," a philosopher's personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly human.

Under the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed through the lens of modern psychology, they can even look like mental disorders. The self-help industry, determined to sell us the promise of a brighter future, can sometimes leave us feeling ashamed that we are not more grateful, happy, or optimistic. "Night Vision" invites us to consider a different approach to life, one in which we stop feeling bad about feeling bad.

In this book, Existentialist philosopher Mariana Alessandri draws on the stories of a diverse group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophers and writers to help us see that our suffering is a sign not that we are broken, but that we are tender, perceptive, and intelligent. Thinkers such as Audre Lorde, María Lugones, C. S. Lewis, and Søren Kierkegaard sat in their anger, sadness, and anxiety until their eyes adjusted to the dark. Alessandri explains how readers can cultivate "night vision" and discover new sides to their painful moods, such as wit and humor, closeness and warmth, and connection and clarity.

"Night Vision" shows us that when we learn to embrace the dark, we begin to see these moods—and ourselves—as honorable, dignified, and unmistakably human.

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