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Acknowledgements; Introduction; 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 of 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: 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. In defence of 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

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