Prudes, perverts, and tyrants [[electronic resource] ] : Plato's Gorgias and the politics of shame / / Christina H. Tarnopolsky

• Autore: Tarnopolsky Christina H. <1964->
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2010
• Edizione: Course Book
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Disciplina: 170
• Soggetto topico: Shame - Political aspects; Democracy - Philosophy
• Soggetto non controllato: Ad hominem; Allan Bloom; Ambiguity; Ambivalence; Anger; Aristotle; Athenian Democracy; Bernard Williams; Callicles; Catamite; Charmides (dialogue); Child abuse; Civility; Conflation; Controversy; Criticism; Critique; Crito; Deliberation; Demagogue; Dialectic; Dichotomy; Direction of fit; Disgust; Disposition; Distrust; Elitism; Embarrassment; False-consensus effect; Forensic rhetoric; Form of life (philosophy); Freedom of speech; Gorgias (dialogue); Gorgias; Grandiosity; Gregory Vlastos; Hannah Arendt; Hedonism; Hippias Major; Human Rights Watch; Humiliation; Ideology; Inference; Irony; Jon Elster; McGill University; Morality; Multitude; Myth; Nicomachean Ethics; Omnipotence; On the Soul; Ostracism; Pathos; Perversion; Phaedo; Phaedrus (dialogue); Phenomenon; Philosopher; Philosophy; Pity; Plato; Pleonexia; Political philosophy; Politics; Polus; Prejudice; Princeton University Press; Protagoras; Psychoanalysis; Psychotherapy; Public sphere; Pythagoreanism; Rationality; Reason; Reintegrative shaming; Republic (Plato); Result; Rhetoric; Self-criticism; Self-deception; Self-esteem; Self-image; Shame; Social stigma; Socratic (Community); Socratic method; Socratic; Sophism; Sophist; Suffering; Suggestion; Symposium (Plato); The Philosopher; Theory; Thought; Thrasymachus; Uncertainty; Vlastos; Vulnerability
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Plato'S Gorgias and the Athenian Politics of Shame -- Chapter One. Shame and Rhetoric in Plato's Gorgias -- Chapter Two. Shaming Gorgias, Polus, and Callicles -- Chapter Three. Plato on Shame in Democratic Athens -- Chapter Four. Socratic vs. Platonic Shame -- Part Two. Plato's Gorgias and the Contemporary Politics of Shame -- Chapter Five. Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato and the Contemporary Politics of Shame and Civility -- Chapter Six. What's so Negative about the "Negative" Emotions? -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 "respectful shame." 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Prudes, perverts, and tyrants
• ISBN: 1-282-64504-8; 9786612645044; 1-4008-3506-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785060803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II