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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
