Author: William Ian Miller
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: disgust, anatomy
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0674031555
ISBN-13: 9780674031555

William Miller embarks on an alluring journey into the world of disgust, showing how it brings order and meaning to our lives even as it horrifies and revolts us. Our notion of the self, intimately dependent as it is on our response to the excretions and secretions of our bodies, depends on it. Cultural identities have frequent recourse to its boundary-policing powers. Love depends on overcoming it, while the pleasure of sex comes in large measure from the titillating violation of disgust prohibitions. Imagine aesthetics without disgust for tastelessness and vulgarity; imagine morality witho

Author: Susan B. Miller
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: emotion, gatekeeper, disgust
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-05-07
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0881633879
ISBN-13: 9780881633870

Miller’s book is a fascinating, psychological study of disgust, an emotion that has received very little treatment in the psychology and psychotherapy literatures. It is written nontechnically and is aimed at a broad psychological and social science readership. She especially examines disgust in terms of boundary issues – how we tend to feel disgusted about things (from decaying organic matter to rotten food to ethnic attributes of people we consider alien) that lie on the border between our sense of self and nonself or between our sense of "good self" and "bad self." This is a general-

Author: Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: law, shame, disgust, humanity, hiding
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-01-02
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0691126259
ISBN-13: 9780691126258

Should laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be required to display bumper stickers or wear T-shirts that announce their crimes? This powerful and elegantly written book, by one of America’s most influential philosophers, presents a critique of the role that shame and disgust play in our individual and social lives and, in particular, in the law.Martha Nussbaum argues that we should be wary of these emotions because they are associated in troubling ways with a desire to hide from our humanity, embodying an unrealistic and so

Authors:Aurel Kolnai, Barry Smith, Carolyn Korsmeyer,
Publisher: Open Court
Keywords: disgust
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 2003-11-26
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0812695666
ISBN-13: 9780812695663

In On Disgust, pioneering philosopher Aurel Kolnai (1905-1973) draws on Husserl’s phenomenological method to examine the experience of disgust. He distinguishes disgust from other emotions of aversion such as fear and contempt and shows how it relates to the five senses. Kolnai argues that disgust is never related to inorganic or nonbiological matter, and that its arousal by moral objects has an underlying similarity with its arousal by organic material: a particular combination of life and death. This book also includes an article published shortly before the author’s death titled

Author: Professor Emeritus Robert Rawdon Wilson Chicago: B
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
Keywords: currents, disgust, imagining, tale, hydra
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0888643683
ISBN-13: 9780888643681

In The Hydra’s Tale, Robert Rawdon Wilson treats the experience of disgust not from the perspective of the disgusting object-in-the-world, but from its representation. Working through the spectrum of human response, culture, and art, Wilson teases out the assumptions that underpin the disgust response.