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Sticks and Stones the Philosophy of Insults

Examines the nature and place of insults in daily life, discussing how insults influence a person's beliefs and impressions about others' character, honor, gender, intentions, conventions, and power.

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  • "Examines the nature and place of insults in daily life, discussing how insults influence a person's beliefs and impressions about others' character, honor, gender, intentions, conventions, and power."@en
  • "What kind of injury is an insult? Is its infliction determined by the insulter or the insulted? To think clearly about how much we should put up with those who would put us down, it is necessary to explore the nature and place of insult in our lives."
  • ""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, Katherine Hepburn, and many others-to provide surprising answers to these questions. He shows that what we find insulting can reveal much about our ideas of character, honor, gender, the nature of speech acts, and social and legal conventions. He considers how insults, both intentional and unintentional, make themselves felt-in play, Freudian slips, insult humor, rituals, blasphemy, libel, slander, and hate speech. And he investigates the insult's extraordinary power, why it can so quickly destabilize our sense of self and threaten our moral identity, the very center of our self-respect and self-esteem."--Publisher's description."

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  • "Sticks and Stones"
  • "Sticks and Stones : the Philosophy of Insults"
  • "Sticks and Stones the Philosophy of Insults"@en
  • "Sticks and stones : the philosophy of insults"
  • "Sticks and stones : the philosophy of insults"@en
  • "Sticks and stones the philosophy of insults"@en
  • "Sticks and stones the philosophy of insults"
  • "Stick and stones the philosophy of insults"

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