Disgust : the theory and history of a strong sensation

Disgust : the theory and history of a strong sensation / Winfried Menninghaus ; translated by Howard Eiland and Joel Golb.

"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...

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Main Author: Menninghaus, Winfried
Format: eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.
Series:Intersections (Albany, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Aversion.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Emotions in art.
Aversion in literature.
Aversion in art.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Emotions in art
Aversion in literature
Aesthetics, Modern
Aversion
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Uniform Title:Ekel.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Between Vomiting and Laughing. Base Lines of a Philosophy of Disgust
  • 1. Disgust Taboo, and the Omnipresence of Disgust in Aesthetic Theory
  • 2. Disgusting Zones and Disgusting Times: The Construction of the Ideally Beautiful Body
  • 3. "Strong Vital Sensation" and Organon of Philosophy: The Judgment of Disgust in Kant
  • 4. Poetry of Putrefaction: "Beautiful Disgust" and the Pathology of the "Romantic"
  • 5. "No" of Disgust and Nietzsche's "Tragedy" of Knowledge
  • 6. Psychoanalysis of Stinking: Libido, Disgust, and Cultural Development in Freud
  • 7. Angel of Disgust: Kafka's Poetics of "Innocent" Enjoyment of "Sulphurous" Pleasures
  • 8. Holy Disgust (Bataille) and the Sticky Jelly of Existence (Sartre)
  • 9. Abject Mother (Kristeva), Abject Art, and the Convergence of Disgust, Truth, and the Real.

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