Democracy and the Death of Shame

Political Equality and Social Disturbance

AvJill Locke

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Is shame dead? With personal information made so widely available, an eroding public/private distinction, and a therapeutic turn in public discourse, many seem to think so. People across the political spectrum have criticized these developments and sought to resurrect shame in order to protect privacy and invigorate democratic politics. Democracy and the Death of Shame reads the fear that 'shame is dead' as an expression of anxiety about the social disturbance endemic to democratic politics. Far from an essential supplement to democracy, the recurring call to 'bring back shame' and other civilizing mores is a disciplinary reaction to the work of democratic citizens who extend the meaning of political equality into social realms. Rereadings from the ancient Cynics to the mid-twentieth century challenge the view that shame is dead and show how shame, as a politically charged idea, is disavowed, invoked, and negotiated in moments of democratic struggle.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-04-01
Mått:158 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:490 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:218
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107063198

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

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'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

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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?