| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 471 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Intersections |
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Intersections (Albany, N.Y.)
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| 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 |
| Summary |
"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.""--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-471) and index |
| Notes |
Translation of: Ekel |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Aversion.
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Aesthetics, Modern.
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Emotions in art.
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Aversion in literature.
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Aversion in art.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Emotions in art
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Aversion in literature
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Aesthetics, Modern
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Aversion
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2003057264 |
| ISBN |
1417538775 |
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9781417538775 |
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0791458326 |
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9780791458327 |
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0791458318 |
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9780791458310 |
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9780791486313 |
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0791486311 |
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