FeaturesSeptember 2004 Does shame have a future? On Professor Martha Nussbaum’s polemic against shame and disgust & why these emotions “are accomplices, not impediments, to that attack on hubris.” No society can do without intolerance, indignation, and disgust. —Patrick Devlin, The Enforcement of Morals
[A] liberal society has particular reasons to inhibit shame and protect its citizens from shaming.
I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
In Masaccio’s great fresco depicting the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden (ca. 1426), the Angel of the Lord hovers, sword in hand, above and behind the First Couple. Adam strides forward, naked, his face buried in his hands. Eve, however, a look of wailing misery on her upturned face, covers her breasts and privates as she walks. She is ashamed of her nakedness ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 23 September 2004, on page 4 Copyright © 2010 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/does-shame-have-a-future-1098
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