Shame and Philosophy - An Investigation in the Philosophy of Emotions and Ethics

Engaging with current research in the philosophy of emotions, both analytic and continental, the author argues that reductionist accounts of emotions leave us in a state of poverty regarding our understanding of our world and of ourselves.

PHIL HUTCHINSON is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His philosophical interests include Wittgenstein and Philosophical Method, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Emotions, Film, and Rhetoric and Informal Logic.