Disgust
the theory and history of a strong sensation
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Publication
2004 - State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
Language
English
Word Count
117,750 words, Guess
Page Count
471 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL22557426M
- ISBN-100791458326
- OCLC Control Number52554305
- OCLC Control Numberdisgusttheoryhis0000menn
- Library of Congress Control Number2003057264
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- Goodreads884685
- LibraryThing4399139
Classifications
- LCCBH
Description
"In Disgust, Winfried Menninghaus provides a comprehensive account of the significance of this forceful emotion in philosophy, aesthetics, literature, the arts, psychoanalysis, and theory of culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics addressed include the role of disgust as both a cognitive and moral organon in Kant and Nietzsche; the history of the imagination of the rotting corpse; the counter-cathexis of the disgusting in Romantic poetics and its modernist appeal ever since; the affinities of disgust and laughter and the analogies of vomiting and writing; the foundation of Freudian psychoanalysis in a theory of disgusting pleasures and practices: the association of disgusting "otherness" with truth and the trans-symbolic "real" in Bataille, Sartre, and Kristeva; Kafka's self-representation as an "Angel" of disgusting smells and acts, concealed in a writerly stance of uncompromising "purity"; and recent debates on "Abject Art.""--BOOK JACKET.
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