Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of Shame

by Christina H . Tarnopolsky (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $54.31

  Through a study of Plato's Gorgias, this title shows that contemporary conceptions of shame are far too narrow. It develops an account of a different kind of shame, which the author calls 'respectful shame' and argues that this type of shame is just as important to contemporary democracy as it was to its ancient form.