Cultural Perspectives on Shame

<p>Each essay in this volume provides a cultural perspective on shame. More specifically each chapter focuses on the question of how a culture can differentially affect experiences of shame for members of that culture. As a collection this volume provides a cross-cultural perspective on shame highlighting the various similarities and differences of experiences of shame across cultures.</p><p>In Part 1 each contributor focuses primarily on how shame is theorized in a non-English-speaking culture and addresses how the science of shame ought to be pursued how it ought to identify its object of study what methods are appropriate for a rigorous science of shame and how a method of study can determine or influence a theory of shame. In Part 2 each contributor is primarily concerned with a cultural practice of shame and address how shame is related to a normative understanding of our self as a person and an individual member of a community how culture and politics affect the value and import of shame and what the relationship between culture and politics is in the construction of shamed identities.</p><p><em>Cultural Perspectives on Shame</em> will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in cross-cultural philosophy philosophy of emotion moral psychology and the social sciences.</p>