Shame as a Self-Other-Conscious Emotion
On many standard readings, shame is an emotion that targets and involves the self in its totality. In shame, the self is affected by a global devaluation: it feels defective, objectionable, condemned. The basic question the speaker wishes to raise and discuss is the following: What does the fact that we feel shame tell us about the nature of self? Does shame testify to the presence of a self-concept, a (failed) self-ideal, and a capacity for critical self-assessment, or does it rather, as some have suggested, point to the fact that the self is in part socially constructed? Should shame primarily be classified as a self-conscious emotion, or is it rather a distinct social emotion?
Date:
12 November 2018, 17:15 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Venue:
St Hilda's College, Cowley Place OX4 1DY
Venue Details:
Lady Brodie Room
Speaker:
Professor Dan Zahavi (St Hilda's College)
Organising department:
St Hilda's College
Organiser:
St Hilda's College
Organiser contact email address:
anita.avramides@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk
Host:
St Hilda's College
Part of:
St Hilda's Philosophy Symposium
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Booking url:
https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/content/shame-self-other-conscious-emotion
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Claire Harvey
