Feeling Ashamed of Myself Because of You

Alba Montes Sanchez; Alessandro Salice

Feeling Ashamed of Myself Because of You

Department of Communication

2 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

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
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	1 Jan 2017
Pages	229-244
Chapter	12
ISBN (Print)	9780262035552
ISBN (Electronic)	9780262337120
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2017

Keywords

Faculty of Humanities
group identification
group membership
self-conscious emotions
Shame
social self

2nd Annual Conference of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions
Montes Sánchez, A. (Speaker)
17 Jul 2015
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Vienna-Copenhagen Workshop "The We: distributive and collective"
Montes Sánchez, A. (Speaker)
30 Mar 2015
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

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Feeling Ashamed of Myself Because of You. / Montes Sanchez, Alba; Salice, Alessandro.
Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture: Investigating the Constitution of the Shared World. ed. / Christoph Durt; Thomas Fuchs; Christian Tewes. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2017. p. 229-244.

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Feeling Ashamed of Myself Because of You

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2nd Annual Conference of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions

Vienna-Copenhagen Workshop "The We: distributive and collective"

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