Shame Across East and West (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kwak, Jun-Hyeok; Cheng, Ken; Thomason, Krista K.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In order to gain a deeper understanding of shame and shamelessness as ethico-political phenomena in the contemporary world, this book stages a cross-cultural dialogue that questions and unsettles established views.

Expounding and evaluating a range of perspectives on shame, from the ancient Greeks and classical Confucians to modern liberalism, the chapters in this collection reflect on how we should understand the movement of shame from private morality into the collective sphere, and ask what role shame can or should play, as emotional support or ethical corrective, to the normative frameworks of social and political civility.

Covering the prominent discourses of Western modernity, as well as non-Western, and oppositional traditions, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars in moral and political philosophy, contemporary democratic theory, and comparative philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040452516
• Artikelnr.: 75512953

Autorenporträt

Jun-Hyeok Kwak is Yixian Professor of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University, China. Krista K. Thomason is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College, USA. Ken Cheng is an independent scholar.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributor Biographies
Acknowledgements
Part I. General Overview
Chapter 1: Introduction: Shame, Civility, and Cross-Cultural Dialogues
(Jun-Hyeok KWAK, Yixian Professor of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen
University; Krista K. THOMASON, Swarthmore College; Ken CHENG, Independent
Scholar)
Part II: Beyond Moral Cultivation
Chapter 2: The Emotion of Shame and the Virtue of Righteousness in Mencius
(Bryan Van Norden, James Monore Taylor Chair in Philosophy at Vassar
College)
Chapter 3: Can Shamelessness Exacerbate the Impact of Shaming? Cynics,
Epicureans, and the Notoriety Trap
(Alin FUMURESCU, Associate Professor of Political Science at University of
Houston)
Chapter 4: Democratic Civility with Relational Non-domination: A Critique
of Martha Nussbaum's View of Constructive Shame
(Jun-Hyeok KWAK, Yixian Professor of Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun
Yat-sen University)
Part III. Shamelessness and Civility
Chapter 5: Shamelessness and Polite Shaming in Early China
(Jane GEANEY, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Richmond)
Chapter 6: The Shamelessness of Lying
(Krista K. THOMASON, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore
College)
Chapter 7: Xiu Wu (being ashamed and loathing) in the Mencius
(Winnie SUNG, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Nanyang Technological
University in Singapore)
Chapter 8: Cynic Shamelessness, Humor and Social Change
(Marta JIMENEZ, Senior Research Scholar at the Faculty of Philosophy of the
Complutense University of Madrid)
Part IV: Shame across Cultures
Chapter 9: Reconciliation in a World without Forgiveness
(David KONSTAN, Professor of Classics at New York University)
Chapter 10: The Necessity of Shame and the Dangers of Shamelessness: A
Confucian Perspective
(Mark BERKSON, Professor and Chair in the Department of Religion at Hamline
University)
Chapter 11: Gender Violence and the Climate Killjoy: What Shame Theorists
Can Learn from Greta Thunberg
(Jill LOCKE, James and Patricia McPherson Chair in American History in the
Department of Political Science at Gustavus Adolphus College)
Chapter 12: Elemental Shame and a Transnational 'New Guarantee'
(Manu SAMNOTRA, Associate Professor in Political Theory in the School of
Interdisciplinary Global Studies, at the University of South Florida)
Index