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Human All too Human
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- Title: Human All too Human: Gossip as Activity
- Author(s): James Wong
- Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
- Collection: Common Ground Research Networks
- Series: New Directions in the Humanities
- Journal Title: The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review
- Keywords: Gossip, Self-understanding, Ethics
- Volume: 2
- Issue: 1
- Date: January 06, 2006
- ISSN: 1447-9508 (Print)
- ISSN: 1447-9559 (Online)
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v02i01/42878
- Citation: Wong, James. 2006. "Human All too Human: Gossip as Activity." The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review 2 (1): 0-0. doi:10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v02i01/42878.
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Abstract
This paper argues for partial acceptance of the often maligned commonplace practice of gossip by appreciating what it can do for individuals.
