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68Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of ShamePrinceton University Press. 2010.In recent years, most political theorists have agreed that shame shouldn't play any role in democratic politics because it threatens the mutual respect necessary for participation and deliberation. But Christina Tarnopolsky argues that not every kind of shame hurts democracy. In fact, she makes a powerful case that there is a form of shame essential to any critical, moderate, and self-reflexive democratic practice. Through a careful study of Plato's Gorgias, Tarnopolsky shows that contemporary c…Read more
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11Book Review: Plato as Critical Theorist, by Jonny Thakkar (review)Political Theory 47 (5): 738-744. 2019.
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9Book Review: Plato as Critical Theorist, by Jonny Thakkar (review)Political Theory 47 (5): 738-744. 2019.
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Plato and the Politics of ShameDissertation, The University of Chicago. 2002.Shame is a peculiar phenomenon. It can fracture our social ties in the very instance that it reveals them. John Rawls argues that shame threatens the mutual respect necessary for democratic deliberation by diminishing a person in the eyes of his audience or even in his own eyes, thus causing this person to withdraw from the discussion. Alternatively theorists of civility, such as Jean Elshtain, argue that shame can provide the necessary conditions for deliberation by excluding and thereby protec…Read more
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5TablesIn Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of Shame, Princeton University Press. 2010.
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32Chapter Two. Shaming Gorgias, Polus, and CalliclesIn Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of Shame, Princeton University Press. pp. 56-88. 2010.
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7BibliographyIn Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of Shame, Princeton University Press. pp. 197-210. 2010.
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30Plato's Politics of Distributing and Disrupting the SensibleTheory and Event 13 (4). forthcoming.
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17Chapter One. Shame and Rhetoric in Plato’s GorgiasIn Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of Shame, Princeton University Press. pp. 29-55. 2010.
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7IntroductionIn Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of Shame, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-26. 2010.
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7ContentsIn Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of Shame, Princeton University Press. 2010.
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37Platonic Reflections on the Aesthetic Dimensions of Deliberative DemocracyPolitical Theory 35 (3): 288-312. 2007.This essay utilizes Plato's insights into the role of shame in dialogical interactions to illuminate the aesthetic dimensions of deliberative democracy. Through a close analysis of the refutation of Polus in Plato's dialogue, the "Gorgias", I show how the emotion of shame is central to the unsettling, dynamic, and transformative character of democratic engagement and political judgment identified by recent aesthetic critics of Habermas' model of communicative action and democratic deliberation. …Read more
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8Chapter Six. What’s so Negative about the “Negative” Emotions?In Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of Shame, Princeton University Press. pp. 172-196. 2010.
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1The Bipolar Longings of Thumos: A Feminist Rereading of Plato’s RepublicSymposium 11 (2): 297-314. 2007.
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6IndexIn Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of Shame, Princeton University Press. pp. 211-218. 2010.
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13Chapter Five. Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato and the Contemporary Politics of Shame and CivilityIn Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of Shame, Princeton University Press. pp. 143-171. 2010.
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6Chapter Three. Plato on Shame in Democratic AthensIn Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of Shame, Princeton University Press. pp. 89-113. 2010.
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6AcknowledgmentsIn Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of Shame, Princeton University Press. 2010.
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81Prudes, Perverts, and TyrantsPolitical Theory 32 (4): 468-494. 2004.In certain contemporary theories of the politics of shame, shame is considered a pernicious emotion that we need to avoid in, or a salutary emotion that serves as an infallible guide to, democratic deliberation. The author argues that both positions arise out of an inadequate notion of the structure of shame and an oversimplistic opposition between shame and shamelessness. Plato's dialogue, the Gorgias, actually helps to address these problems because it supplies a deeper understanding of the pl…Read more
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7Chapter Four. Socratic vs. Platonic ShameIn Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of Shame, Princeton University Press. pp. 114-140. 2010.