Contributor Biographies

Acknowledgements

Part I. General Overview

Chapter 1: Introduction: Shame, Civility, and Cross-Cultural Dialogues

(Jun-Hyeok KWAK, Professor of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University; Krista K. THOMASON, Swarthmore College; Ken CHENG, Independent Scholar)

Part II: Beyond Moral Cultivation

Chapter 2: The Emotion of Shame and the Virtue of Righteousness in Mencius

(Bryan Van Norden, James Monore Taylor Chair in Philosophy at Vassar College)

Chapter 3: Can Shamelessness Exacerbate the Impact of Shaming? Cynics, Epicureans, and the Notoriety Trap

(Alin FUMURESCU, Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Houston)

Chapter 4: Democratic Civility with Relational Non-domination: A Critique of Martha Nussbaum’s View of Constructive Shame.

(Jun-Hyeok KWAK, Yixian Professor of Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University)

Part III. Shamelessness and Civility

Chapter 5: Shamelessness and Polite Shaming in Early China

Chapter 6: The Shamelessness of Lying

(Krista K. THOMASON, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College)

Chapter 7: Xiu Wu (being ashamed and loathing) in the Mencius.

(Winnie SUNG, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore)

Chapter 8: Humor and the Shamelessness of the Ancient Cynics.

(Marta JIMENEZ, Senior Research Scholar at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Complutense University of Madrid)

Part IV: Shame across Cultures

Chapter 9: Feeling No Shame: Reconciliation in a World without Forgiveness

(David KONSTAN, Professor of Classics at New York University)

Chapter 10: The Necessity of Shame and the Dangers of Shamelessness: A Confucian Perspective.

(Mark BERKSON, Professor and Chair in the Department of Religion at Hamline University)

Chapter 11: Gender Violence and the Climate Killjoy: What Shame Theorists Can Learn from Greta Thunberg.

(Jill LOCKE, James and Patricia McPherson Chair in American History in the Department of Political Science at Gustavus Adolphus College)

Chapter 12: Elemental Shame and a Transnational ‘New Guarantee’.

(Manu SAMNOTRA, Associate Professor in Political Theory in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, at the University of South Florida)

Index