Although humanity has changed since the times of the ancient Greeks, this study claims that the differences are not to be traced to a shift in basic conceptions of ethical life. We are more like the ancients than we are prepared to acknowledge, and only when this is understood can we properly grasp our most important differences from them, such as ...
We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness. Bernard Williams' original and radical book questions this picture of Western history. While we are in many ways different from the Greeks, Williams ...
Drawing on philosophers and theorists of shame, Shame in Shakespeare analyzes the shame and humiliation suffered by the tragic hero, providing not only a new approach to Shakespeare but a committed and provocative argument for reclaiming shame. This volume provides: an account of previous traditions of shame and of the Renaissance context a ...
Men and women in early modern Europe experienced their bodies very differently from the ways in which contemporary men and women do. In this challenging and innovative book, Gail Kern Paster examines representations of the body in Elizabethan-Jacobean drama in the light of humoral medical theory, tracing the connections between the history of the ...
The mature narrator of Annie Ernaux's La Honte (1997) identifies her father's assault on her mother, in June 1952, as the founding event in her awareness of self and social place, a bedrock memory that represents the one remaining link between the child she was and the woman she has become. As an adolescent, the protagonist is sexually repressed ...
As Leon Wurmser notes in his Foreword, this challenging and important book advances "an entirely new theory of affect, development, consciousness, relation, and illness." To establish his theory, the author draws on his clinical experience along with a wide range of literature, philosophy, psychology, and mythology from many different cultures.
This study of King Lear emphasizes the fact that Cordelia Kent, and the Fool create a loving community from which Lear persistently flees, and seeks to explain his bizarre behavior not, as is sometimes done, by attributing unconscious incestuous desires to him, but by demonstrating that Lear's profound and tyrannizing shame originates in his ...
In this text, Dalziell identifies patterns of shame in a range of important Australian autobiographies published between 1960 and 1995. Shame, she says, is central to contemporary Australian identity, thanks to the part played in our history by displacement, genocide, war and immigration.
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