Introduction: The two faces of shame -- Ajax: shame and ideals -- Ajax reconsidered: shame and violence -- Ajax revealed: a new account of shame -- Ajax redeemed: the moral value of shame -- Ajax reviled: shame and shaming -- Conclusion: Shame and the other bugs in the garden.
Summary:
"Is shame a valuable moral emotion, or would we be better off without it? In Naked, Krista K. Thomason takes a hard look at the reality of shame. The experience of it, she argues, involves a tension between identity and self-conception: namely, what causes me shame both overshadows me (my self-conception) and yet is me (my identity). We are liable to feelings of shame because we are not always who we take ourselves to be."--Publisher information.
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