On Shame

Name: On Shame
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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By: Michael Morgan

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Hardcover | 25 January 2008 | Edition Number 1

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8 Pages

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20.3 x 13.3 x 1.27

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Despite the wide use of shame in the media and politics, through 'name and shame' campaigns and cause-related marketing, it is not a term well or universally understood. On Shame points to ways in which we can and should use this powerful emotion to address and act against atrocities in the modern world, from the Holocaust to Darfur.

On Shame draws on historical and current affairs to explore the emotion of shame, as well as films such as Night and Fog, Ghosts of Rwanda and Life is Beautiful and the work of Primo Levi and J.M. Coetzee to illustrate how works of art can both produce an experience of shame and be themselves objects of which we should be ashamed.

Michael Morgan argues that shame is not exclusively associated with actions, and that it is more global in its sense of the self; we can be ashamed to be associated or identified with something, whether or not we support or participate in it. It is this feeling of identification with something we abhor that spurs us on to moral action, Morgan argues, and this is where the real power of shame lies.

Industry Reviews

'Participating in a recent revival of philosophical interest in the phenomenon of shame and its relation to our identities and practical lives, Michael Morgan's book makes a passionate and philosophically intelligent case for regarding shame as fundamental to the kinds of social beings we are.'

- Alice Crary, the New School for Social Research, USA

'Deeply engaging and very easy to read. The subject Morgan addresses is timely and important. On Shame provides philosophical analysis in a way that should be accessible to the educated reader, and mixes this analysis effectively with current events, literature, film and psychology. I suspect many people will be grateful for the help it provides in thinking more deeply about difficult issues that cannot be ignored.'

- Marya Schechtman, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

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