Disgust
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Disgust

Theory and History of a Strong Sensation

  1. 480 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Disgust

Theory and History of a Strong Sensation

About this book

Examines this forceful emotion from philosophical, literary, and art historical perspectives.

Disgust (Ekel, dégoût) is a state of high alert. It acutely says "no" to a variety of phenomena that seemingly threaten the integrity of the self, if not its very existence. A counterpart to the feelings of appetite, desire, and love, it allows at the same time for an acting out of hidden impulses and libidinal drives.

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."

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Disgust: Editor
  3. Disgust: The Theory and History of a Strong Sensation
  4. Copyright
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Introduction: Between Vomiting and Laughing. Baselines of a Philosophy of Disgust
  7. 1. The Disgust Taboo, and the Omnipresence of Disgust in Aesthetic Theory
  8. 2. Disgusting Zones and Disgusting Times: The Construction of the Ideally Beautiful Body
  9. 3. “Strong Vital Sensation” and Organon of Philosophy: The Judgment of Disgust in Kant
  10. 4. Poetry of Putrefaction: “Beautiful Disgust” and the Pathology of the “Romantic”
  11. 5. The “No” of Disgust and Nietzsche’s “Tragedy” of Knowledge
  12. 6. The Psychoanalysis of Stinking Libido, Disgust, and Cultural Development in Freud
  13. 7. The Angel of Disgust: Kafka’s Poetics of “Innocent” Enjoyment of “Sulphurous” Pleasures
  14. 8. Holy Disgust (Bataille) and the Sticky Jelly of Existence (Sartre)
  15. 9. Abject Mother (Kristeva), Abject Art, and the Convergence of Disgust, Truth, and the Real
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Back Cover