Shame, Recognition and Love in Shakespeare’s «King Lear»
Abstract 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 sensibility. 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.
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MAIBOM, H. L., “The Descent of Shame”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 80 (2010), 566–94.
MONTES SÁNCHEZ, A., “Social Shame vs. Private Shame: A Real Dichotomy?”,PhaenEx, 8 (2013), 28–58.
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SARTRE, J. P., Being and Nothingness, trans. by Hazel Barnes, London, Methuen, 1969.
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Quarto, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000.
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WEBBER, J., “Bad Faith and the Other”, Webber, J. ed., Reading Sartre: On Phenomenology and Existentialism, London, Routledge, 2011, pp. 180–94.
WELZ, C., “Scenes of Shame, Social Roles, and the Play with Masks”, Continental Philosophy Review, 47 (2014), 107–21.
WILLIAMS, B., Shame and Necessity, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2008.
ZAHAVI, D. “Self, Consciousness, and Shame”, Zahavi, D. ed., The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Phenomenology, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012.
Montes Sánchez, A. (2015). Shame, Recognition and Love in Shakespeare’s «King Lear». Azafea: Revista De Filosofía, 16, 73–93. https://doi.org/10.14201/13032
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