Feeling Ashamed of Myself Because of You
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Within the literature, shame is generally described as a self-conscious emotion, meaning that shame is about the self that feels that emotion. But how can this account accommodate cases in which I feel ashamed of someone else? This paper pursues two goals. The first is to vindicate the phenomenological credentials of what might be called ‘hetero-induced shame’ and to resist possible attempts to reduce its specificity. The second goal is to show how the standard account of shame as self-directed can be made hospitable to cases of hetero-induced shame. We argue that a promising way to do this is by supplementing the standard account by a theory of group identification.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture : Investigating the Constitution of the Shared World |
Editors | Christoph Durt, Thomas Fuchs, Christian Tewes |
Number of pages | 16 |
Place of Publication | Cambridge, Mass. |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Publication date | Apr 2017 |
Pages | 229-244 |
Chapter | 12 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780262035552 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780262337120 |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2017 |
- Faculty of Humanities - group identification, group membership, self-conscious emotions, Shame, social self
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