In Defense of Shame

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-979353-2
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 568 g

Is shame social? Is it superficial? Is it a morally problematic emotion? Researchers in disciplines as different as psychology, philosophy, and anthropology have thought so. But what is the nature of shame and why are claims regarding its social nature and moral standing interesting and important? Do they tell us anything worthwhile about the value of shame and its potential legal and political applications?

In this book, Julien Deonna, Raffaele Rodogno, and Fabrice Teroni propose an original philosophical account of shame aimed at answering these questions. The book begins with a detailed examination of the evidence and arguments that are taken to support what they call the two dogmas about shame: its alleged social nature and its morally dubious character. Their analysis is conducted against the backdrop of a novel account of shame and ultimately leads to the rejection of these two dogmas. On this account, shame involves a specific form of negative evaluation that the subject takes towards herself: a verdict of incapacity with regard to values to which she is attached. One central virtue of the account resides in the subtle manner it clarifies the ways in which the subject's identity is at stake in shame, thus shedding light on many aspects of this complex emotion and allowing for a sophisticated understanding of its moral significance.

This philosophical account of shame engages with all the current debates on shame as they are conducted within disciplines as varied as ethics, moral, experimental, developmental and evolutionary psychology, anthropology, legal studies, feminist studies, politics and public policy.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate and graduate students and their teachers within all disciplines studying the emotions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deonna, Julien

Rodogno, Raffaele

Teroni, Fabrice

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie Kulturpsychologie, Ethnopsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnopsychologie, Kulturpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Introduction

- A. Why shame?

- B. Emotions and their Dimensions

- C. Shame and the sense of shame

- D. Emotions and morality

- E. The structure of the book

- Part One: Two Dogmas About Shame

- Chapter I. The Social Emotion

- Chapter II. The Ugly Emotion

- Part Two: The Nature Of Shame

- Chapter III. Shame, values and the self

- Chapter IV. Shame revealed

- Part Three: Revisiting the Dogmas

- Chapter V. Socialism with Modesty

- Chapter VI. Shame's Fragile Beauty

- Part Four: Shame in the Public Domain

- Chapter VII. Shame, Crime, and Punishment

- Chapter VIII. Shame, Legislation, and Subordination

Über Autor(innen)

Julien A. Deonna is Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Geneva and at the Swiss Center for Research in the Affective Sciences, University of Geneva.

Raffaele Rodogno is Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, Aarhus University, Denmark and Collaborator at the Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN) and MindLab at Aarhus University.

Fabrice Teroni is Postdoctoral Assistant, University of Bern and Research Associate at the Swiss Center for Research in the Affective Sciences, University of Geneva.