Disgust: The Theory and History of a Strong Sensation (Suny Series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory)
by Winfried Menninghaus
SUNY Series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
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"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 show more 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 show lessTags
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Winfried Menninghaus teaches at the Freie Universitat Berlin and at Yale University.
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Common Knowledge
- Original title
- Ekel: Theorie und Geschichte einer starken Empfindung
- Original publication date
- 1999
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- English, German
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