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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.
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.
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.
"The schoolyard chant "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" is not really true. In reality, words have effects, and in the end the popular as well as standard legal distinctions between speech and conduct are as problematic as they are helpful. Ind…
A celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. It shows us why, over a hundred years after his death, people of every age and from different walks of life are drawn to Wilde's dazzling repartee and the wicked brilliance o…
