Jerome Neu

Sticks and Stones

The Philosophy of Insults

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Produktbeschreibung

In Sticks and Stones, philosopher Jerome Neu probes the nature, purpose, and effects of insults, exploring how and why they humiliate, embarrass, infuriate, and wound us so deeply. What kind of injury is an insult? Is it determined by the insulter or the insulted? What does it reveal about the character of both parties as well as the character of society and its conventions? What role does insult play in social and legal life? When is telling the truth an insult? Neu draws upon a wealth of examples and anecdotes-as well as a range of views from Aristotle and Oliver Wendell Holmes to Oscar Wilde, John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, and many others-to provide surprising answers to these questions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 150mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780195314311
• ISBN-10: 019531431X
• Artikelnr.: 22886533

Autorenporträt

Jerome Neu is Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of A Tear is an Intellectual Thing (OUP 1999). He lives in Capitola, California.

Inhaltsangabe

1: On Feeling Insulted
2: Honor: Slaps and Swords
3: Insult in Play and Ritual
4: Assault from the Rear
5: The Language of Abuse
6: Insult in the Law: Fighting Words, Obscenity, and Hate Speech
7: Insult in the Law: Libel and Slander
8: Insult in the Law: Blasphemy
9: Insult Humor
10: To Understand All is to Forgive All--Or Is It?
Notes
References
Index