On disgust / Aurel Kolnai ; edited and with an introduction by Barry Smith and Carolyn Korsmeyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kolnai, Aurel.

Contributor:

Korsmeyer, Carolyn.

Smith, Barry, 1952-

Standardized Title:

Ekel. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Aversion.

Physical Description:

viii, 120 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Open Court, [2004]

Summary:

In On Disgust, pioneering philosopher Aurel Kolnai (1905-1973) draws on Husserl's phenomenological method to examine the experience of disgust. He distinguishes disgust from other emotions of aversion such as fear and contempt and shows how it relates to the five senses. Kolnai argues that disgust is never related to inorganic or nonbiological matter, and that its arousal by moral objects has an underlying similarity with its arousal by organic material: a particular combination of life and death. This book also includes an article published shortly before the author's death titled "The Standard Modes of Aversion: Fear, Disgust, and Hatred."

Contents:

Disgust

The standard modes of aversion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-115) and index.

Contains:

Kolnai, Aurel. Standard modes of aversion.

ISBN:

0812695666

0812695267

OCLC:

52520717