What is it about?
The paper maps out the historical significance of shame in order to approach what could be called its ethical intrigue. The political, social and phenomenological implications of shame are reconsidered in light of its fundamental relation to ethics. Shame in the article is seen as an affect of proximity whose basic structure testifies to our constitutive openness to others, to the fact that we are not alone.
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Why is it important?
The article follows an alternative route of shame that establishes its ethical foundations and looks beyond the socially adverse terms within which it is usually couched.
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I hope that this article will not only contribute to the already nuanced field of shame studies but also demonstrate its crucial importance for identity formation and social relations in general.
Dr Zlatan Filipovic
Jonkoping University
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This page is a summary of: TOWARDS AN ETHICS OF SHAME, Angelaki, October 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/0969725x.2017.1406050.
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