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The meaning of disgust / Colin McGinn.
Van Pelt Library BF575.A886 M36 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGinn, Colin, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aversion.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 248 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Disgust is an Emotion unique to Adult Humans. But What does it Mean? What unites the class of disgusting objects? This book argues that notions of life and death are implicit in the conceptual underpinnings of disgust. It also contends that we are beings consciously divided towards ourselves, repressing the disgust we feel at our biological identity, yet also deeming ourselves godlike. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The analysis of disgust
- The aversive emotions
- The elicitors of disgust
- The architecture of disgust
- Theories of disgust
- Handling the cases
- The function of disgust
- Disgust and the human condition
- Our dual nature
- Repression and disgust
- Thoughts of death
- Culture and disgust.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199829538
- 0199829535
- OCLC:
- 699379001
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