The bond of shame
- A long time ago I suddenly realized that the country one belongs to is not, as the usual rhetoric goes, the one you love but the one you are ashamed of. Shame can be a stronger bond than love. I repeatedly tested my discovery with friends from different countries: they all reacted the same way - with surprise immediately followed by full agreement, as if my suggestion was a self-evident truth. I am not claiming that the burden of shame is always the same; in fact, it varies immensely among countries. But the bond of shame - shame as a bond - invariably works, for a larger or smaller number of individuals. Aristotle listed "shame" ('aidos') among the passions, pointing out that "it is not a virtue" ('Nicomachaean Ethics' 1108 a 30-31). This definition still makes sense. Shame is definitely not a matter of choice: it falls upon us, invading us - our bodies, our feelings, our thoughts - as a sudden illness. It is a passion placed at the intersection between biology and history: the domain which Sigrid Weigel made so distinctively her own.
Author: | Carlo Ginzburg |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-443333 |
ISBN: | 978-3-7705-5006-7 |
Parent Title (German): | Passionen : Objekte – Schauplätze – Denkstile / Corina Caduff ; Anne-Kathrin Reulecke ; Ulrike Vedder (Hrsg.) |
Publisher: | Wilhelm Fink |
Place of publication: | München |
Editor: | Corina Caduff, Anne-Kathrin Reulecke, Ulrike Vedder |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | German |
Date of Publication (online): | 2017/06/23 |
Year of first Publication: | 2010 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2017/06/23 |
GND Keyword: | Scham; Kultur; Gefühl; Partizipation; Kulturelle Identität |
Page Number: | 12 |
First Page: | 19 |
Last Page: | 26 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 405169337 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik | |
Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin | |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |