Wstyd jako mechanizm kultury
Shame as a mechanism of culture

Author(s): Dorota Jewdokimow
Subject(s): Semiotics / Semiology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: shame; culture; text; sexual revolution; Tartu-Moscow School
Summary/Abstract: This text is an attempt to present the anthropological and axiological category of shame within the framework of semiotic description. The aim of this text is to present the role which is played by shame in culture, the role which controls behavior patterns of its representatives. I will present shame as a mechanism which constitutes the inner content of culture, which divides the areas of culture, non-culture and anti-culture. In order to do so, I will use the notions developed by the Tartu-Moscow School. Applying the semiotic theory I will also derive from the concepts put forth under different approaches to culture, to an extent which will allow me to develop my considerations. The tools developed by the Tartu-Moscow School, enriched by the elements of hermeneutics, allow conducting a historical and cultural analysis of shame in its axiological and psychological dimension. They make it possible to determine how the mechanism of shame functions as a culture-producing pattern.

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