Y si aprovech嫫amos el poder de la vergnza como un motor vital y pol癃ico? El nuevo ensayo del autor de Andar, una filosof燰. La vergnza es un sentimiento omnipresente en el mundo contempor嫕eo, un signo de nuestra responsabilidad. Podemos avergonzarnos del estado del mundo, de las propias pertenencias frente a los que no tienen nada, de la indecente riqueza de los poderosos, del modo en que asfixiamos el planeta, de las actitudes sexistas o racistas...
La vergnza no es solo tristeza y retraimiento; tambi幯 es portadora de ira, de una energ燰 transformadora. Por eso Marx proclam?que la vergnza es revolucionaria.
En este ensayo, Fr嶮廨ic Gros recurre a autores como Primo Levi, a Annie Ernaux, a Virginie Despentes y a James Baldwin, para explorar las profundidades de un sentimiento demasiado olvidado en la filosof燰 moral y pol癃ica.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION An original reflection on shame as the central feeling of our age - the expression of an anger that is the necessary condition for new struggles.
Can shame become a source of political strength? Faced with injustice, growing inequality and systemic violence, we cry out in shame. We feel ashamed of obscene wealth amid wider deprivation. We feel ashamed of humanity for its ruthless and relentless exploitation of the earth. We feel ashamed of the racism and sexism that permeate society and our everyday lives.
This difficult emotion is not just sadness or a withdrawal into oneself, nor is it a paralysing sense of inadequacy. As Fr嶮廨ic Gros argues in A
Philosophy of Shame, it arises when our perception of reality rejects passivity and resignation and instead embraces imagination. Shame thus becomes the expression of an anger that is a powerful, transformative force -one that assumes a radical character.
In dialogue with authors such as
Primo Levi,
Annie Ernaux,
Virginie Despentes and James Baldwin, Gros explores a concept that is still little understood in its anthropological, moral, psychological and political depths. Shame is a revolutionary sentiment because it lies at the foundation of any path of subjective recognition, transformation and struggle.
