Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants (eBook)

Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of Shame

Christina H. Tarnopolsky (Autor)

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2010
240 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3506-5 (ISBN)

Infos

In recent years, most political theorists have agreed that shame shouldn't play any role in democratic politics because it threatens the mutual respect necessary for participation and deliberation. But Christina Tarnopolsky argues that not every kind of shame hurts democracy. In fact, she makes a powerful case that there is a form of shame essential to any critical, moderate, and self-reflexive democratic practice. Through a careful study of Plato's Gorgias, Tarnopolsky shows that contemporary conceptions of shame are far too narrow. For Plato, three kinds of shame and shaming practices were possible in democracies, and only one of these is similar to the form condemned by contemporary thinkers. Following Plato, Tarnopolsky develops an account of a different kind of shame, which she calls "e;respectful shame."e; This practice involves the painful but beneficial shaming of one's fellow citizens as part of the ongoing process of collective deliberation. And, as Tarnopolsky argues, this type of shame is just as important to contemporary democracy as it was to its ancient form. Tarnopolsky also challenges the view that the Gorgias inaugurates the problematic oppositions between emotion and reason, and rhetoric and philosophy. Instead, she shows that, for Plato, rationality and emotion belong together, and she argues that political science and democratic theory are impoverished when they relegate the study of emotions such as shame to other disciplines.

Autor

Christina H. Tarnopolsky is assistant professor of political science at McGill University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.4.2010
• Zusatzinfo: 5 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: ad hominem • Allan Bloom • Ambiguity • Ambivalence • Anger • Anti-Capitalism • Antisemitic canard • Antisemitism • Antisemitism (authors) • Apathy • Aristotle • Arthur Nebe • Athenian democracy • authoritarianism • Bernard Williams • bribery • Callicles • Caricature • Catamite • Charmides (dialogue) • Child Abuse • Child abuse (skin signs) • Civility • Civilization and Its Discontents • class conflict • concealment • Conflation • Contradiction • Controversy • cowardice • Crime • Criticism • critique • crito • cruelty • culprit • Cynicism (philosophy) • Deliberation • demagogue • Descartes' error • despotism • Dialectic • dichotomy • Direction of fit • Disgust • Disparagement • Disposition • distrust • drunk drivers • elitism • Embarrassment • evocation • Extortion • False-consensus effect • Falsity • forensic rhetoric • Form of life (philosophy) • freedom of speech • Good and evil • Gorgias • Gorgias (dialogue) • Grandiosity • Gregory Vlastos • Grief • Hannah Arendt • hatred • Hazing • Hedonism • Hippias Major • hostility • Human Rights Watch • humiliation • Ideology • Imaginary Audience • Imitation • immanent critique • Imprisonment • inference • inferiority complex • Irony • Jon Elster • Masculinity • McGill University • Mental disorder • Monadology • Morality • Multitude • Mutilation • Myth • Narcissism • Negative Liberty • Nicomachean Ethics • Oligarchy • Omnipotence • On the Soul • Opportunism • Oppression • Ostracism • Pathos • Pericles • perjury • Persecution • persecution of Jews • Personality • Perversion • Phaedo • Phaedrus (dialogue) • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophy • pity • Plato • Pleonexia • Political Philosophy • Political suicide • Political violence • Politics • Polus • Prejudice • Princeton University Press • profanity • Protagoras • Psychoanalysis • Psychological punishment • psychotherapy • Public sphere • Pythagoreanism • Racism • Rationality • reason • Reintegrative Shaming • Remorse • Republic (Plato) • result • rhetoric • ridicule • self-criticism • self-deception • self-esteem • Self-Image • Separation of Powers • sexual desire • Shame • social rejection • social stigma • socratic • Socratic (Community) • Socratic method • SOPHISM • Sophist • Suffering • Suggestion • Suicide • Symposium (Plato) • The Birth of Tragedy • The Erotic • The Misunderstanding • theory • The Philosopher • Thought • Thrasymachus • thumos • Torture • Totalitarianism • Tragedy • Tyrant • Uncertainty • Unpopularity • Vlastos • vulnerability
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3506-2 / 1400835062
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3506-5 / 9781400835065