The Anatomy of Disgust
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 i…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-674-03155-5
- EAN: 9780674031555
- Produktnummer: 8424220
- Verlag: Harvard University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B16.3 cm x D2.1 cm 590 g
- Abbildungen: None
- Gewicht: 590
Über den Autor
William Ian Miller is Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.
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