The Moral Psychology of Shame (Volume 19) (Moral Psychology of the Emotions, 19)

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 Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction Bibliography Chapter 1: Themes in Current Psychological Research on Shame Measuring Shame Shame-Eliciting Situations Response Scales Tangney on the (Mal)adaptiveness of Shame Dispositional Shame, Individual Well-being and Interpersonal Functioning Behavioural Consequences and Correlates of State Shame and Anticipated Shame Group-based Shame Evolutionary Approaches Implications and Building Blocks for a New Psychological Account of Shame (Mal)adaptive? Bad Self? Building Blocks for a New Psychological Account of Shame Final Remarks Bibliography Chapter 2: The Moral Efficacy of the Confucian Sense of Shame ‘Shame’ in the Chinese Usage The Content of One’s Shame in Confucius’ Analects The Sense of Shame in the Mengzi The Sense of Shame in the Xunzi The Confucian Sense of Shame: The Internal Referee of the External Situation Notes Bibliography Chapter 3: Plato on Shame Four Positions on Platonic Shame Different Ways to Understand Aidos and Aischyne Fear of the Consequence of a Bad Reputation: Gyges Internalized Values, Self-evaluation, Honour Shame and Ambivalence Notes Bibliography Chapter 4: Hume on Shame The Mechanisms of Shame: Gabriele Taylor, Bernard Williams, and Richard Wollheim Hume on Chastity and Modesty Shame as Humility A Due Degree of Pride Vicious Shame Notes Bibliography Chapter 5: The Functions of Shame in Nietzsche The Functions of Shame in Nietzsche Methodology Social Regulation Pathos of Distance Vicious Shame Counter-shame Conclusion ​List of abbreviations of Nietzsche’s works and translations Notes Bibliography Chapter 6: Shame as a Self-Conscious Positive Emotion: Scheler’s Radical Revisionary Approach Shame and Self-consciousness Shame and Self-worth Functions of Shame Varieties of Shame Bodily Shame and Psychological Shame Shame Before Others and Shame Before Myself Shame of Myself, Shame of Another Self and Shame for Another Self Genuine Shame and Non-genuine Shame Shame and Sexuality CONCLUDING REMARKS Notes Bibliography Chapter 7: Self-Understanding and Moral Self-Improvement in Shame and Shame Based on Group Identification The Dilemma: Is Shame Good or Bad?1 Individual Shame and Its Moral Significance Individual Shame: Fittingness, Moral Appropriateness and Self-Understanding Shame Based on Group Identification Hetero-Induced and Group-Based Shame: Fittingness and Moral Significance Notes Bibliography Chapter 8: The Situatedness of Shame and Shaming: ‘Little Worlds’ and Social Transformations Situatedness: Habitual Affective Intentionality, ‘Little Worlds’ and Emotion Repertoires Situating Episodic and Dispositional Shame(lessness) Situating (Public) Shaming: The Ecological Crisis Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 9: Shame and Trauma Shame and Trauma Being the Victim Identification with the Aggressor Neglect and Recognition Shame and Submission Shame, Power and Community Notes Bibliography Chapter 10: Shame, Gender and Self-Making Women’s Shame as Shame-Attunement Gender Differences, Shame-Attunement and Shame Shame-attunement and Sense of Self The Shamefulness of Shame-attunement: Fanon Notes Bibliography Chapter 11: Shame on Wrong Planet Autism and Shame: State of the Art Shame, Autism and Autistic Identity Affective Dynamics: Shame and the Existential Feeling of Wrongness in Autism Make Room on the Planet Notes Bibliography Index About the Contributors 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 twelve 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 Sanchez, Raffaele Rodogno, Alessandro Salice, Krista K. Thomason, Ingrid 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.