Disgust : the theory and history of a strong sensation / Winfried Menninghaus ; translated by Howard Eiland and Joel Golb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menninghaus, Winfried.

Series:

Intersections (Albany, N.Y.)

SUNY series, Intersections

Standardized Title:

Ekel. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aversion.

Aesthetics, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 471 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Between Vomiting and Laughing

The Disgust Taboo, and the Omnipresence of Disgust in Aesthetic Theory

Disgusting Zones and Disgusting Times

“Strong Vital Sensation” and Organon of Philosophy

Poetry of Putrefaction

The “No” of Disgust and Nietzsche’s “Tragedy” of Knowledge

The Psychoanalysis of Stinking

The Angel of Disgust

Holy Disgust (Bataille) and the Sticky Jelly of Existence (Sartre)

Abject Mother (Kristeva), Abject Art, and the Convergence of Disgust, Truth, and the Real

Notes

Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-471).

ISBN:

0-7914-8631-1

1-4175-3877-5

OCLC:

56408577