Cultural Perspectives on Shame: Unities and Diversities

Each essay in this volume provides a cultural perspective on shame. They focus on the question of how culture can differentially affect experiences of shame for members of that culture. The volume provides a cross-cultural perspective on shame, highlighting the similarities and differences of experiences of shame across cultures.

Cecilea Mun is a disabled, Korean-American philosopher. She is the author of Interdisciplinary Foundations for the Science of Emotion: Unification without Consilience (2021), the editor of and contributing author to the Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Shame: Methods, Theories, Norms, Cultures, and Politics (2019), the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion, and the founding director of the Society for Philosophy of Emotion.