Disgust : Theory and History of a Strong Sensation /

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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...

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Main Author: Menninghaus, Winfried
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Aversion.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Esthetique > 20e siecle.
Esthetique > 19e siecle.
Esthetique > 18e siecle.
Aversion dans la litterature.
Aversion dans l'art.
Émotions dans l'art.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (480 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9780791486313

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