Shame, recognition and love in Shakespeare’s 'King Lear'
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Shame, recognition and love in Shakespeare’s 'King Lear'. / Montes Sanchez, Alba.
In: Azafea: Revista de Filosofía, Vol. 16, 2014, p. 73-93.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Shame, recognition and love in Shakespeare’s 'King Lear'
AU - Montes Sanchez, Alba
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - In this paper, I explore the experience of shame and its connections to recognition and love as manifested in Shakespeare’s King Lear. My main focus in this paper is the ethical relevance of shame. I start from Sartre’s account of shame in Being and Nothingness, and I consider Webber’s attempt to reformulate it in terms of bad faith. I reject this and propose a way to rethink shame through a study of the workings of recognition in King Lear, following Stanley Cavell’s reading of this tragedy. I claim that the experience of shame has a relational structure, which makes it a crucial part of our ethical sensibilities. My analysis of King Lear brings out this structure and underlines the ethical significance of shame at this structural level, by highlighting its connection to recognition and love.
AB - In this paper, I explore the experience of shame and its connections to recognition and love as manifested in Shakespeare’s King Lear. My main focus in this paper is the ethical relevance of shame. I start from Sartre’s account of shame in Being and Nothingness, and I consider Webber’s attempt to reformulate it in terms of bad faith. I reject this and propose a way to rethink shame through a study of the workings of recognition in King Lear, following Stanley Cavell’s reading of this tragedy. I claim that the experience of shame has a relational structure, which makes it a crucial part of our ethical sensibilities. My analysis of King Lear brings out this structure and underlines the ethical significance of shame at this structural level, by highlighting its connection to recognition and love.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - shame
KW - love
KW - recognition
KW - bad faith
KW - freedom
KW - moral emotions
KW - Jean-Paul Sartre
KW - Stanley Cavell
KW - King Lear
KW - Shakespeare (William)
M3 - Journal article
VL - 16
SP - 73
EP - 93
JO - Azafea
JF - Azafea
SN - 0213-3563
ER -
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