{"product_id":"a-philosophy-of-shame-isbn-9781804294154","title":"A Philosophy of Shame","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn original reflection on shame as the central feeling of our age — the expression of an anger that is the necessary condition for new struggles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan shame become a source of political strength? Faced with injustice, growing inequality and systemic violence, we cry out in shame. We feel ashamed of obscene wealth amid wider deprivation. We feel ashamed of humanity for its ruthless and relentless exploitation of the earth. We feel ashamed of the racism and sexism that permeate society and our everyday lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis difficult emotion is not just sadness or a withdrawal into oneself, nor is it a paralysing sense of inadequacy. As Frédéric Gros argues in \u003ci\u003eA Philosophy of Shame\u003c\/i\u003e, it arises when our perception of reality rejects passivity and resignation and instead embraces imagination. Shame thus becomes the expression of an anger that is a powerful, transformative force —one that assumes a radical character.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn dialogue with authors such as Primo Levi, Annie Ernaux, Virginie Despentes and James Baldwin, Gros explores a concept that is still little understood in its anthropological, moral, psychological and political depths. Shame is a revolu­tionary sentiment because it lies at the foundation of any path of subjective recognition, transformation and struggle.Foreword\u003cbr\u003e1. A Bad Reputation\u003cbr\u003e2. Societies Without Honour?\u003cbr\u003e3. Social Disdain\u003cbr\u003e4. A Ghost Story\u003cbr\u003e5. Melancholy\u003cbr\u003e6. The Total Social Fact: Incest and Rape (Traumatic Shame)\u003cbr\u003e7. The Sexual Foundations of the Republic\u003cbr\u003e8. Aidos\u003cbr\u003e9. Philosophy as the Great Shamer\u003cbr\u003e10. Future Imperfect\u003cbr\u003e11. Intersectional Shame\u003cbr\u003e12. Systemic Shame\u003cbr\u003e13. Revolutionary Shame\u003cbr\u003eNotes\"In this elegant, psychologically sharp and richly referenced analysis, Gros shows us how shame, as Marx wrote, ‘is already a revolution of its kind’. In chapters that weave deftly between politics, literature and psychoanalysis, he leads us carefully through the familiar sources of shame (social contempt, moral violence, bodily disgust) to its collective and public iterations (shame at one’s people, or even one’s species). He shows us how it is through embracing shame as a passionate engagement with the world that one escapes its melancholic and disfiguring effects.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Richard Seymour, author of \u003ci\u003eDisaster Nationalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Equipped with many references to Freud, French classics, and Greek philosophy, Gros attempts to reveal the complexities of human shame by parsing it out into a series of taxonomies such as moral shame, digital shame, and shame rooted in how one is perceived by others\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In cataloguing the varieties of shame, Gros roughly defines it as “an amalgam of sadness and rage,” often rooted in the fear of exposure...Gros hopes to revive it as a force for change, citing Marx: 'If a whole nation were to feel ashamed it would be like a lion recoiling in order to spring.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Dan Piepenbring, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An accessible and engaging introduction to philosophical conceptions of shame.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alexander Stern, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The value of \u003ci\u003eA Philosophy of Shame\u003c\/i\u003e, however, is that it treats its subject not as something that exists only as an obstacle to be evaded. Gros prompts us to run towards shame rather than to flee it, to reckon with the experience, so that shame might invigorate rather than mortify.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Dan Dixon, \u003ci\u003eThe Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An erudite treatise which traces shame's burden back to Ancient Rome and Lucretia\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Joseph Teeling, \u003ci\u003eThe Whitney Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFRÉDÉRIC GROS\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Political Humanities at Sciences Po Paris. He edited Michel Foucault’s books in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (Gallimard) and his lectures at the Collège de France from 1981 to 1984. He is the author of a number of essays on con-temporary issues, including disobedience, shame and war. He is also the author of the bestselling book \u003ci\u003eA Philosophy of Walking\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305052426469,"sku":"NP9781804294154","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781804294154.jpg?v=1767720701","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-philosophy-of-shame-isbn-9781804294154","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}