Updated with a new introduction, this fifteenth anniversary edition of A Return to Modesty reignites Wendy Shalit’s controversial claim that we have lost our respect for an essential virtue: modesty.

When A Return to Modesty was first published in 1999, its argument launched a worldwide discussion about the possibility of innocence and romantic idealism. Wendy Shalit was the first to systematically critique the "hook-up" scene and outline the harms of making sexuality so public.

Today, with social media increasingly blurring the line between public and private life, and with child exploitation on the rise, the concept of modesty is more relevant than ever. Updated with a new preface that addresses the unique problems facing society now, A Return to Modesty shows why "the lost virtue" of modesty is not a hang-up that we should set out to cure, but rather a wonderful instinct to be celebrated.

A Return to Modesty is a deeply personal account as well as a fascinating intellectual exploration into everything from seventeenth-century manners to the 1948 tune "Baby, It’s Cold Outside." Beholden neither to social conservatives nor to feminists, Shalit reminds us that modesty is not prudery, but a natural instinct—and one that may be able to save us from ourselves.

这本《回归谦逊》的15周年纪念版以新的介绍进行了更新，重新激发了温迪-沙利特有争议的主张，即我们已经失去了对一种基本美德的尊重：谦逊。

当《回归谦逊》于1999年首次出版时，其论点引发了一场关于纯真和浪漫理想主义的可能性的全球讨论。温迪-沙利特（Wendy Shalit）是第一个系统地批判 "勾搭 "场景的人，并概述了将性行为公开化的危害。

今天，随着社交媒体日益模糊了公共生活和私人生活之间的界限，以及对儿童的剥削在增加，谦虚的概念比以往任何时候都更有意义。回归谦虚》更新了新的序言，解决了目前社会面临的独特问题，它表明为什么谦虚这种 "失去的美德 "不是我们应该着手解决的问题，而是一种值得庆祝的美妙本能。

重返谦虚》是一个深刻的个人叙述，也是对从十七世纪的礼仪到1948年的曲子 "宝贝，外面很冷 "的迷人的智力探索。沙利特既不看重社会保守派，也不看重女权主义者，他提醒我们，谦虚不是假正经，而是一种自然本能--一种可能能够拯救我们自己的本能。