Jill Locke is a Professor of Political Science at Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota.

'Jill Locke has a big point to make about the recurring role that what she calls 'the lament that shame is dead' plays in stifling expressions of genuine democracy. But she is also highly attuned to the subtle differences that have governed the nature and effects of this lament in different cultural and political contexts, from ancient Greece to twentieth-century Little Rock, making Democracy and the Death of Shame an exemplary work of scholarship at the intersection of political theory and history.' Sophia Rosenfeld, Yale University, Connecticut

• Part I. Shame's Allure: Introduction. The mythology of Aidōs; 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?

Jill Locke is a Professor of Political Science at Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota.

'Jill Locke has a big point to make about the recurring role that what she calls 'the lament that shame is dead' plays in stifling expressions of genuine democracy. But she is also highly attuned to the subtle differences that have governed the nature and effects of this lament in different cultural and political contexts, from ancient Greece to twentieth-century Little Rock, making Democracy and the Death of Shame an exemplary work of scholarship at the intersection of political theory and history.' Sophia Rosenfeld, Yale University, Connecticut

• Part I. Shame's Allure: Introduction. The mythology of Aidōs; 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?