Democracy and the Death of Shame

Democracy and the Death of Shame

Political Equality and Social Disturbance

Locke, Jill (Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota)

Cambridge University Press

04/2016

218

Dura

Inglês

9781107063198

15 a 20 dias

This book explores shame as a politically charged idea that is disavowed, invoked, and negotiated in moments of democratic struggle.
Part I. Shame's Allure: Introduction. The mythology of Aidos; 1. The lament that shame is dead; Part II. Unashamed Citizens: 2. 'A Socrates gone mad': Plato's lament and the threat of cynic shamelessness; 3. Rousseau's pariahs, Rousseau's laments: pudeur and the authentic ideal in revolutionary France; Part III. Contamination and Lamentation: 4. Furious democracy: nineteenth-century 'slut shaming', Indian removal, and the ascent of the 'ill-bred' man; 5. Arendt's lament: the death of shame and the rise of political children; Conclusion. Is shame necessary?
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