El Libro de Los Días / A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion [Spanish]

By Frédéric Gros

Y si aprovech ramos el poder de la verg enza como un motor vital y pol tico?

El nuevo ensayo del autor de Andar, una filosof a.

La verg enza es un sentimiento omnipresente en el mundo contempor neo, 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 verg enza no es solo tristeza y retraimiento; tambi n es portadora de ira, de una energ a transformadora. Por eso Marx proclam que la verg enza es revolucionaria.

En este ensayo, Fr d ric 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 a moral y pol tica.

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 d ric 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 8430626190
• ISBN13: 9788430626199
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Taurus
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.