Shame, Exposure, and Privacy

By Carl D. Schneider

Book Overview

Taking profound issue with the contemporary tendency towards public display and exposure of things once kept private, Carl Schneider draws support from such thinkers as Nietzsche, Freud and Sartre in this defence of the human personality's need for privacy. Indeed, he argues, the sense of shame is an important resource in our journey towards maturity. Far from being an impediment to self-realization, healthy shame emerges from Schneider's analysis as one of the distinguishing marks of our very humanity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393034550
• ISBN13: 9780393034554
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

An Excellent Analysis of a Basic Human Experience

Schneider's book is an excellent review of human "shame." My office recently cited to it in briefing before the United States Supreme Court in Falvo v. Owasso Independent School District (Docket No. 00-1073). This is a unique work that has no real competition. The book is well organized and a must read for any Nietzsche fan. The author should be commended for taking on a unique human experience and giving it pragmatic value.