Die Kunst zu beleidigen

When arguments run out, one should resort to insults - recommends Arthur Schopenhauer, for: "A rudeness defeats any argument." The book contains a brief theory and an extensive practice of jabs, malice, and verbal broadside that Schopenhauer directs with categorical impertinence against all possible targets: philosophers, writers, women, social institutions, mankind, life - in short: against the whole world. However, he also reveals how to successfully defend oneself.