On taking offence /
"The subject of this book is an emotion that philosophers have largely overlooked and yet one that is the target of intense public debate: taking offence. This is an everyday emotion, often taken at small and ordinary slights of daily life. However, especially in an era of public criticism of t...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY, United States of America :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Studies in feminist philosophy.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Series
- On Taking Offence
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The defence of offence
- 1. Taking offence: An emotion reconsidered
- 1.1. Philosophers on taking offence
- 1.2. An analysis of taking offence
- 1.3. Distinguishing offence
- 1.4. Rethinking offence: Domestic, not catastrophic
- 1.5. The limits to taking offence
- 1.6. Towards a defence: From victimhood to social standing
- 2. What taking offence does
- 2.1. Social standing and the role of social norms
- 2.2. Taking offence and reinforcing norms
- 2.3. Taking offence and renegotiating norms
- 2.4. In defence of negotiating social norms
- 2.5. On negotiating through offence
- 3. Do sweat the small stuff: On the nature and significance of social standing
- 3.1. Between excess and deficiency
- 3.2. Social standing as an equal, part I: Why the 'small stuff' matters
- 3.3. Social standing as an equal, part II: The power to set the terms
- 3.4. Defending the significance of affronts
- 3.5. Resisting by taking offence
- 4. The limits of justified offence: On anger, intent, and uptake
- 4.1. Anger, offence, and the act
- 4.2. Contesting offence
- 4.3. "But I didn't mean it": On intention and blame
- 4.4. "But that's not offensive": Disagreement and the offensive
- 4.5. When offence lacks uptake
- 5. Only joking!: On the offensiveness of humour
- 5.1. Theories of humour and the offensive
- 5.2. Some linguistics of jokes
- 5.3. How offensive jokes function
- 5.4. The riskiness of humour
- 6. A corrective civic virtue: Weighing the costs and benefits of offence
- 6.1. Offence as a civic virtue: Arguments from equality and civility
- 6.2. The costs of offence to the offending party
- 6.3. Justifying the costs of offence
- 6.4. Burdens on the offended.
- 7. A social approach, our lives online, and the social emotions
- 7.1. A regulatory turn
- 7.2. Taking offence online
- 7.3. The social emotions beyond offence
- Bibliography
- Index.