1st Edition
Shame Across East and West
Contributor Biographies
Acknowledgements
Part I. General Overview
Chapter 1: Introduction: Shame, Civility, and Cross-Cultural Dialogues
(Jun-Hyeok KWAK, Yixian Professor of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University; Krista K. THOMASON, Swarthmore College; Ken CHENG, Independent Scholar)
Part II: Beyond Moral Cultivation
Chapter 2: The Emotion of Shame and the Virtue of Righteousness in Mencius
(Bryan Van Norden, James Monore Taylor Chair in Philosophy at Vassar College)
Chapter 3: Can Shamelessness Exacerbate the Impact of Shaming? Cynics, Epicureans, and the Notoriety Trap
(Alin FUMURESCU, Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Houston)
Chapter 4: Democratic Civility with Relational Non-domination: A Critique of Martha Nussbaum’s View of Constructive Shame
(Jun-Hyeok KWAK, Yixian Professor of Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University)
Part III. Shamelessness and Civility
Chapter 5: Shamelessness and Polite Shaming in Early China
(Jane GEANEY, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Richmond)
Chapter 6: The Shamelessness of Lying
(Krista K. THOMASON, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College)
Chapter 7: Xiu Wu (being ashamed and loathing) in the Mencius
(Winnie SUNG, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore)
Chapter 8: Cynic Shamelessness, Humor and Social Change
(Marta JIMENEZ, Senior Research Scholar at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Complutense University of Madrid)
Part IV: Shame across Cultures
Chapter 9: Reconciliation in a World without Forgiveness
(David KONSTAN, Professor of Classics at New York University)
Chapter 10: The Necessity of Shame and the Dangers of Shamelessness: A Confucian Perspective
(Mark BERKSON, Professor and Chair in the Department of Religion at Hamline University)
Chapter 11: Gender Violence and the Climate Killjoy: What Shame Theorists Can Learn from Greta Thunberg
(Jill LOCKE, James and Patricia McPherson Chair in American History in the Department of Political Science at Gustavus Adolphus College)
Chapter 12: Elemental Shame and a Transnational ‘New Guarantee’
(Manu SAMNOTRA, Associate Professor in Political Theory in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, at the University of South Florida)
Index
Biography
Jun-Hyeok Kwak is Yixian Professor of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University, China.
Krista K. Thomason is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College, USA.
Ken Cheng is an independent scholar.
