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	SHAME Volume 70 No. 4 (Winter 2003) Arien Mack, Editor

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Agnes Heller	Five Approaches to the Phenomenon of Shame
David Konstan	Shame in Ancient Greece
John Hollander	Honor Dishonorable: Shameful Shame
Dov Cohen	The American National Conversation about (Everything but) Shame
Richard A. Shweder	Toward a Deep Cultural Psychology of Shame
David Shapiro	The Tortured, not the Torturers, Are Ashamed
James Gilligan	Shame, Guilt, and Violence
Michael Lewis	The Role of the Self in Shame
Paul Gilbert	Evolution, Social Roles, and the Differences in Shame and Guilt
Alexander Welsh	A King Lear of the Debtors' Prison: Dickens and Shakespeare on Mortal Shame
Rocheller Gurstein	The Waning of Shame in Modern Life: Kundera's Novels as a Case Study
Okello Oculi	A Narrative on "Shame"
Yirmiyahu Yovel	The Birth of the Picaro from the Death of Shame
Martha Hollander	Losses of Face: Rembrandt, Masaccio, and the Drama of Shame
Eiko Ikegami	Shame and the Samurai: Institutions, Trustworthiness, and Authonomy in the Elite Honor Culture

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Notes on Contributors
(at time of publication)
 

Five Approaches to the Phenomenon of Shame Agnes Heller Agnes Heller is Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at the New School University’s Graduate Faculty. Her recent publications include The Concept of the Beautiful (forthcoming) and The Time Is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of History (2002). Back To Top  Shame in Ancient Greece David Konstan David Konstan David Konstan is the John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and the Humanistic Tradition, and Professor of Comparative Literature, at Brown University. His most recent publication is Pity Transformed (2001); his book, The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks, is forthcoming. Back To Top  Honor Dishonorable: Shameful Shame John Hollander John Hollander is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University. He has written 17 volumes of poetry, the most recent of which is Picture Window (2003). He is the author of seven books of criticism, including The Work of Poetry (1997), has edited or coedited numerous books, written books for children, and collaborated on operatic and lyric works. Back To Top  The American National Conversation about (Everything but) Shame Dov Cohen Dov Cohen is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois. He is interested in issues of cultural persistence and change. Back To Top  Toward a Deep Cultural Psychology of Shame Richard A. Shweder Richard A. Shweder, a cultural anthropologist, is a Carnegie Scholar and the William Claude Reavis Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago. Back To Top  The Tortured, Not the Torturers, Are Ashamed David Shapiro David Shapiro is Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training at the New School University’s Graduate Faculty. He is the author, most recently, of Dynamics of Character: Self-regulation in Psychotherapy (2000). His research deals with the psychopathology of character and its treatment. Back To Top  Shame, Guilt, and Violence James Gilligan James Gilligan, M.D., is Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry and former Director of the Institute of Law and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Author of Preventing Violence: An Agenda for the Coming Century (2001) and other books, he is currently conducting research on violence prevention in jails and prison as Director of the Center for the Study of Violence. Back To Top  The Role of the Self in Shame Michael Lewis Michael Lewis is University Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Director of the Institute for the Study of Child Development at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University. Back To Top  Evolution, Social Roles, and the Difference in Shame and Guilt Paul Gilbert Paul Gilbert is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Derby University, UK, and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Back To Top  A King Lear of the Debtors' Prison: Dickens and Shakespeare on Mortal Shame Alexander Welsh Alexander Welsh, Emily Sanford Professor of English at Yale University, is author of Freud’s Wishful Dream Book (1994) and, most recently, Hamlet in his Modern Guises (2001). His current project is a literary and philosophical study of honor. Back To Top  The Waning of Shame in Modern Life: Kundera's Novels as a Case Study Rochelle Gurstein Rochelle Gurstein is a frequent contributor to The New Republic, Salmagundi, Raritan, and other “little magazines." She is the author of The Repeal of Reticence (1996). Back To Top  A Narrative on "Shame" Okello Oculi Okello Oculi,  a writer and policy consultant in Uganda, has worked with numerous organizations, including the International Human Rights Law Group and the Nigerian Ministry of Integration and Cooperation in Africa. His publications include Discourses on African Affairs (2000) and articles in African Literature and Political Science, and the novel Song for the Sun in Us (2000). Back To Top  The Birth of the Picaro from the Death of Shame Yirmiyahu Yovel Yirmiyahu Yovel is Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School University, and chairman of the Jerusalem Spinoza Institute. His books, in several languages, include Kant and the Philosophy of History (1980), Spinoza and Other Heretics (1989); Dark Riddle: Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Jews (1998). His essay is based on a new book manuscript, Marranos in Golden Age Spanish Culture. Back To Top  Losses of Face: Rembrandt, Masaccio, and the Drama of Shame Martha Hollander Martha Hollander is Associate Professor of Art History at New College, Hofstra University. Her book, An Entrance for the Eyes: Space and Meaning in Seventeenth- Century Dutch Painting, was published in 2002. Back To Top  Shame and the Samurai: Institutions, Trustworthiness, and Autonomy in the Elite Honor Culture Eiko Ikegami Eiko Ikegami is Director of the Center for Studies of Social Change and Professor of Sociology at the New School University’s Graduate Faculty. She is the author of The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan (1997). Her new book, Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and Political Origins of Japanese Culture, is forthcoming in 2004. Back To Top

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