Jerome Neu

Sticks and Stones (eBook, ePUB)

The Philosophy of Insults

• Format: ePub

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 is its' role in social and and legal life (from play to jokes to ritual to war and from blasphemy to defamation to hate speech)? How ready should we be to forgive? Neu draws upon a wealth of examples and anecdotes-as well as a range of views from Aristotle to Oscar Wilde to Katherine Hepburn and many others-to provide surprising answers to these questions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190452759
• Artikelnr.: 42727078

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