The anatomy of disgust:
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1. Verfasser: Miller, William Ian 1946- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Spanish
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England Harvard University Press 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-313) and index
Darwin's disgust -- Disgust and its neighbors -- Thick, greasy life -- The senses -- Orifices and bodily wastes -- Fair is foul, and foul is fair -- Warriors, saints, and delicacy -- The moral life of disgust -- Mutual contempt and democracy -- Orwell's sense of smell
William Miller details our anxious relation to basic life processes; eating, excreting, fornicating, decaying, and dying. But disgust pushes beyond the flesh to vivify the larger social order with the idiom it commandeers from the sights, smells, tastes, feels, and sounds of fleshly physicality. Disgust and contempt, Miller argues, play crucial political roles in creating and maintaining social hierarchy. Democracy depends less on respect for persons than on an equal distribution of contempt. Disgust, however, signals dangerous division
Miller argues that disgust is deeply grounded in our ambivalence to life: it distresses us that the fair is so fragile, so easily reduced to foulness, and that the foul may seem more than passing fair in certain slants of light. When we are disgusted, we are attempting to set bounds, to keep chaos at bay. Of course we fail. But, as Miller points out, our failure is hardly an occasion for despair, for disgust also helps to animate the world, and to make it a dangerous, magical and exciting place
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