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Om bidragsyterne
Alessandra Fussi is associate professor of moral philosophy in the Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge at the University of Pisa.
Raffaele Rodogno is associate professor of philosophy in the School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University.
This collection brings together philosophers and psychologists to review the contemporary psychological literature on shame, discuss it from a variety of philosophical traditions, and consider different controversies. Issues addressed include whether shame is overall beneficial or detrimental to human life, whether it is inherently interpersonal or intrapersonal, whether it requires a great deal of self-consciousness, and whether it has a common cross-cultural core or differs radically across different cultures and groups. Both because of the different ways to conceptualize shame and related phenomena and the different ways there are of measuring it, disagreements can appear at first blush larger and more intractable than they really are. Something beneficial or detrimental that one school or thinker ascribes to shame another might ascribe to guilt or some other emotion. Indeed, it is not always clear whether theorists are disagreeing about the same thing or discussing two different things. Given how eclectic this collection is, it is unlikely to serve as a primary course text for many classes, but it may serve as a supplement for many classes in both philosophy and psychology. Recommended. Advanced students.
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This remarkable collection offers real insight into some key moments in the history of the theorizing about shame while at the same time providing a rich understanding of the most sophisticated facets of contemporary debates on the nature of shame in philosophy and psychology. This, together with the fact that many chapters shed considerable light on the role shame plays in crucial discussions of public interest, such as self-understanding, gender, trauma, and psychopathology, makes me strongly recommend it.
- Julien A. Deonna, Department of Philosophy & Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva,
Few emotions have divided opinion as deeply as shame. Some scholars have argued that shame is essentially a maladaptive emotion used to oppress minorities and reinforce stigmas and traumas, an emotion that leaves the self at the mercy of powerful others. Other scholars, however, have argued that the absence of a sense of shame in a subject—their shamelessness—is tantamount to a vicious moral insensitivity. As the eleven original chapters in this collection attest, however, shame scholars are entering a new phase, one in which scholarship no longer attempts to defend one side of shame against the other, but rather accepts both faces as faithful to the phenomenon to be explained.
At the core of our understanding of shame there are profound disagreements about the importance of the Other in shaping our moral identity. As this collection shows by its study of shame, the difficulty of the connection between Self, Other, and morality spans over millennia and cultures and currently animates important debates at the core of feminism and disability studies.
Contributors: Mark Alfano, Alessandra Fussi, Lorenzo Greco, JeeLoo Liu, Katrine Krause-Jensen, Heidi L. Maibom, Tjeert Olthof, Imke von Maur, Alba Montes Sánchez, Raffaele Rodogno, Alessandro Salice, Krista K. Thomason, Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
This collection presents the latest research on one of the most controversial moral emotions: shame. Twelve original essays reveal that complexities in the connections between self, other, and morality span millennia and cultures and currently animate important debates at the core of feminism and disability studies.
Introduction, Alessandra Fussi and Raffaele Rodogno
Chapter 1: Themes in Current Psychological Research on Shame, Tjeert Olthof
Chapter 2: The Moral Efficacy of the Confucian Sense of Shame, JeeLoo Liu
Chapter 3: Plato on Shame, Alessandra Fussi
Chapter 4: Hume on Shame, Lorenzo Greco
Chapter 5: The Functions of Shame in Nietzsche, Mark Alfano
Chapter 6: Shame as a Self-Conscious Positive Emotion: Scheler’s Radical Revisionary Approach, Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
Chapter 7: Self-Understanding and Moral Self-Improvement in Individual Shame and Shame Based on Group Identification, Alba Montes Sánchez and Alessandro Salice
Chapter 8: The situatednesss of shame and shaming: “Little worlds” and social transformations, Imke von Maur
Chapter 9: Shame and Trauma, Heidi L. Maibom
Chapter 10: Shame, Gender, and Self-Making, Krista K. Thomason
Chapter 11: Shame on Wrong Planet: A study of shame among people on the autism spectrum, Katrine Krause-Jensen and Raffaele Rodogno
About the Contributors
Index
How do our emotions influence our other mental states (perceptions, beliefs, motivations, intentions) and our behaviour? How are they influenced by our other mental states, our environments, and our cultures? What is the moral value of a particular emotion in a particular context? This series explores the causes, consequences, and value of the emotions from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Series Editor: Mark Alfano, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie University
Advisory Board: Michael Brady (Glasgow University), Julien Deonna (University of Geneva), Owen Flanagan (Duke University), Bennett Helm (Franklin & Marshall), Victoria McGeer (Princeton University), Kathryn Norlock (Trent University), Carolyne Price (Open University, UK), Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh), David Rosenthal (CUNY Graduate Center), Christine Tappolet (University of Montreal)
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Alessandra Fussi is associate professor of moral philosophy in the Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge at the University of Pisa.
Raffaele Rodogno is associate professor of philosophy in the School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University.