1st Edition

Offense and Offensiveness A Philosophical Account

By Andrew Sneddon Copyright 2021
278 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers a comprehensive study of the nature and significance of offense and offensiveness. It incorporates insights from moral philosophy and moral psychology to rationally reconstruct our ordinary ideas and assumptions about these notions. When someone claims that something is offensive, others are supposed to listen. Why? What is it for something to be offensive? Likewise, it’s... Read more

Prologue

1. Introduction

Part I. The Nature and Significance of Offense

2. The Nature of Offense

3. Offense and Well-Being Part I: Is Feeling Offended Intrinsically Bad?

4. Offense and Well-Being Part II: Interests and the Mind

5. The Significance of Offense: A Suggestion

Part II. The Nature and Significance of Offensiveness

6. Offensiveness and Symbolic Value

7. Putting Offense and Offensiveness Together: From Affect to Symbolic Aspects of Ways of Living, and Back Again

8. The Significance of Offensiveness

Epilogue

Biography

Andrew Sneddon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. He studies ethics and philosophical psychology. He is the author of Action and Responsibility (2006), Like-Minded: Externalism and Moral Psychology (2011), and Autonomy (2013).