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The Anatomy of Disgust.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1997Copyright date: ©1997Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (335 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674041066
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Anatomy of DisgustDDC classification:
  • 152.4
LOC classification:
  • BF575
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE -- 1. DARWIN'S DISGUST -- 2. DISGUST AND ITS NEIGHBORS -- 3. THICK, GREASY LIFE -- 4. THE SENSES -- 5. ORIFICES AND BODILY WASTES -- 6. FAIR IS FOUL, AND FOUL IS FAIR -- 7. WARRIORS, SAINTS, AND DELICACY -- 8. THE MORAL LIFE OF DISGUST -- 9. MUTUAL CONTEMPT AND DEMOCRACY -- 10. ORWELL'S SENSE OF SMELL -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX.
Summary: Our notion of the self depends on it; cultural identities have frequent recourse to its boundary-policing powers; and love depends on overcoming it. Miller traverses literature, philosophy, history, political theory, and psychology to show how disgust animates our world.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE -- 1. DARWIN'S DISGUST -- 2. DISGUST AND ITS NEIGHBORS -- 3. THICK, GREASY LIFE -- 4. THE SENSES -- 5. ORIFICES AND BODILY WASTES -- 6. FAIR IS FOUL, AND FOUL IS FAIR -- 7. WARRIORS, SAINTS, AND DELICACY -- 8. THE MORAL LIFE OF DISGUST -- 9. MUTUAL CONTEMPT AND DEMOCRACY -- 10. ORWELL'S SENSE OF SMELL -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX.

Our notion of the self depends on it; cultural identities have frequent recourse to its boundary-policing powers; and love depends on overcoming it. Miller traverses literature, philosophy, history, political theory, and psychology to show how disgust animates our world.

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