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The Moral Psychology of Shame
Edited by Alessandra Fussi and Raffaele Rodogno
Few emotions have divided opinion as deeply as shame. Some scholars have argued that shame is essentially a maladaptive emotion used to oppress minorities and reinforce stigmas and traumas, an emotion that leaves the self at the mercy of powerful others. Other scholars, however, have argued that the absence of a sense of shame in a subject—their shamelessness—is tantamount to a vicious moral insensitivity. As the eleven original chapters in this collection attest, however, shame scholars are entering a new phase, one in which scholarship no longer attempts to defend one side of shame against the other, but rather accepts both faces as faithful to the phenomenon to be explained.
Open Access
Chapter 11, Shame on Wrong Planet, by Katrine Krause-Jensen and Raffaele Rodogno, has been made available for open access through funding by Aarhus University.
