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The meaning of disgust : life, death, and revulsion / Colin McGinn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGinn, Colin, 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aversion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 248 pages)
- Other Title:
- Life, death, and revulsion
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'The Meaning of Disgust' is an original study of a fascinating but neglected subject, which attempts to tell the disturbing truth about the human condition.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-991240-8
- 1-283-35290-7
- 9786613352903
- 0-19-987826-9
- OCLC:
- 761692612
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