Feeling Ashamed of Myself Because of You

TY - CHAP

T1 - Feeling Ashamed of Myself Because of You

AU - Montes Sanchez, Alba

AU - Salice, Alessandro

PY - 2017/1/1

Y1 - 2017/1/1

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - group identification

KW - group membership

KW - self-conscious emotions

KW - Shame

KW - social self

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9780262035552

SP - 229

EP - 244

BT - Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture

A2 - Durt, Christoph

A2 - Fuchs, Thomas

A2 - Tewes, Christian

PB - MIT Press

CY - Cambridge, Mass.

ER -