Shame's guilt disproved

Critical Quarterly

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 65-72

  Deonna, Julien ^a,b   Teroni, Fabrice ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c NONE

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EID: 61149109558     PISSN: 00111562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8705.2008.00850.x     Document Type: Review

References (16)

1. Helen M. Lynd, On Shame and the Search for Identity (London: Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1958), 257
2. Paul Gilbert, 'Evolution, Social Roles, and the Differences in Shame and Guilt', Social Research, 70:4 (2003), 1225
3. Plato, Republic, Book V, 1. 465
4. David Hume, An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals, ch. 8, sect. 8, 213
5. Richard Wollheim, On the Emotions (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), Lecture 3
6. Cheshire Callhoun, 'An Apology for Moral Shame', Journal of Political Philosophy, 12:2 (2004)
7. Wollheim, On the Emotions, Lecture 3
8. Jean-Paul Sartre, L'Être et le néant (Paris: Gallimard, 1943), 265-6
9. Bernard Williams, Shame and Necessity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), ch. 4
10. This suggests that we should draw a distinction of the kind Rawls famously drew between natural and moral shame. Cf. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1971), 290
11. This is not to say that there is no important continuity between bodily shame and other forms of shame. But, according to Velleman, who does stress this continuity, this emotion is anything but superficial: in shame, the person fails to manifest her agency in her eyes or those of others, i.e. appears as less than a person. See David J. Velleman, 'The Genesis of Shame', Philosophy and Public Affairs, 30:1 (2001)
12. Ruth Benedict, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946), 222-3
13. R. H. Smith, J. M. Webster, G. W. Parrott and H. L. Eyre, 'The Role of Public Exposure in Moral and Nonmoral Shame and Guilt', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83:1 (2002), 138-59
14. Smith et al., 'The Role of Public Exposure'
15. For a thorough review of the relevant empirical literature, see June P. Tangney and Ronda L. Dearing, Shame and Guilt (New York: Guilford Press, 2002)
16. See, e.g., Gilbert, 'Evolution, Social Roles' and Daniel Fessler, 'Shame in Two Cultures: Implications for Evolutionary Approaches', Journal of Cognition and Culture, 4:2 (2004), 207-62