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Contemporary vocabulary accommodates “microaggressions” and other real and perceived slights, institutions and companies offer sensitivity training, and the artfully cultivated awareness of even the minutest forms of bias has given rise to an enlightened patois that, rather than undermining social distinctions, on some occasions even bolsters them. Show me how you speak, and I can tell you what your credentials are.
Progress on the anti-discrimination front, however, risks being obliterated by a new breed of ideologues, media personalities, and politicians who positively revel in shattering long-held tenets of social decorum. Their weapon is an ostensibly unfettered straight talk that, in reality, turns out to be a paroxysm of rhetorical violence. Competing for outrageousness, humiliating opponents, denigrating minorities, mocking the most vulnerable groups in society – these are strategies that have long been considered beyond the pale, and a sure sign of a candidate’s unfitness for office. Increasingly, though, they are a source of pleasure that is not guilty but brazen, and a vote winner at that.
How do decision-makers manipulate the shame of others to fuel their own performative shamelessness? And how can this trend be countered? In Shame: The Politics and Power of an Emotion, David Keen offers a wide-ranging global survey of the uses and abuses of a formidable affect.
Speaker
David Keen, London School of Economics and Political Science
Moderation
Danilo Scholz, KWI
Information on participating / attending:
Participation
This is a public event and participation is free of charge. There is no registration necessary.
Participation via Zoom
For online participation (Zoom) use the following Link at the given time.
Organizers
Organized by the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI).
Date:
07/17/2025 18:00 - 07/17/2025
Event venue:
Goethestraße 31, Online (Zoom) & Gartensaal
45128 Essen
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Germany
Target group:
all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Cultural sciences, Language / literature, Philosophy / ethics, Politics
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture, Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
06/10/2025
Sender/author:
Anna Abbenhaus
Department:
Pressestelle
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de//mobile/en/event79466
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