Carlo Ginzburg: The Bond of Shame
▻https://newleftreview.org/issues/II120/articles/carlo-ginzburg-the-bond-of-shame
Is shame for one’s country, not love of it, the truer mark of belonging? Lineaments of a political emotion, at the intersection of biology and history, from Nestor’s invocation on the battlefield of Troy to Primo Levi’s remembrance of the Red Army. How might we imagine the boundaries of a shame-based community?