Cultural Perspectives on Shame

Each essay in this volume provides a cultural perspective on shame. They focus on the question of how culture can differentially affect experiences of shame for members of that culture. The volume provides a cross-cultural perspective on shame, highlighting the similarities and differences of experiences of shame across cultures.

Cecilea Mun is a disabled, Korean-American philosopher. She is the author of Interdisciplinary Foundations for the Science of Emotion: Unification without Consilience (2021), the editor of and contributing author to the Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Shame: Methods, Theories, Norms, Cultures, and Politics (2019), the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion, and the founding director of the Society for Philosophy of Emotion.

Introduction Cecilea Mun Part 1: Theorizing the Concept of Shame 1. Semantic Categories of Korean Words of Shame: Embarrassment, Humiliation, and Guilt Bongrae Seok 2. lajjA: Philosophical, Psychological, and Literary Perspectives from India Dharm P. S. Bhawuk 3. The Concept of Shame and Its Reception in the Medieval Islamic Tradition Josh Hayes 4. Defining the Construct of -ay-': A Multi-Method Approach Faris Albugami and Dharm P. S. Bhawuk 5. Shame and Liberation: Emilio Uranga and the Critical Phenomenology of Shame Francisco Gallegos Part 2: Shame in Practice 6. Shame, Vulnerability, and Change Jing Iris Hu 7. Shame from a Middle Eastern Perspective Rebecca Merkin 8. Configuring Smart-Shaming Culture in the Philippines Hazel T. Biana 9. Shame and Circumcision in Africa Wafula Yenjela 10. To Be is to Be Ashamed: Scheler's Phenomenology of Jewish Assimilation Adrian Switzer