Moral Psychology of Shame

This collection presents the latest research on one of the most controversial moral emotions: shame. Eleven original essays reveal that complexities in the connections between self, other, and morality span millennia and cultures and currently animate important debates at the core of feminism and disability studies.

Alessandra Fussi is associate professor of moral philosophy in the Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge at the University of Pisa. Raffaele Rodogno is associate professor of philosophy in the School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University.

Introduction, Alessandra Fussi and Raffaele Rodogno Chapter 1: Themes in Current Psychological Research on Shame, Tjeert Olthof Chapter 2: The Moral Efficacy of the Confucian Sense of Shame, JeeLoo Liu Chapter 3: Plato on Shame, Alessandra Fussi Chapter 4: Hume on Shame, Lorenzo Greco Chapter 5: The Functions of Shame in Nietzsche, Mark Alfano Chapter 6: Shame as a Self-Conscious Positive Emotion: Scheler's Radical Revisionary Approach, Íngrid Vendrell Ferran Chapter 7: Self-Understanding and Moral Self-Improvement in Individual Shame and Shame Based on Group Identification, Alba Montes Sánchez and Alessandro Salice Chapter 8: The situatednesss of shame and shaming: "Little worlds" and social transformations, Imke von Maur Chapter 9: Shame and Trauma, Heidi L. Maibom Chapter 10: Shame, Gender, and Self-Making, Krista K. Thomason Chapter 11: Shame on Wrong Planet: A study of shame among people on the autism spectrum, Katrine Krause-Jensen and Raffaele Rodogno About the Contributors Index