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On Disgust
Aurel Kolnai
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Description for On Disgust
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 157 x 9. Weight in Grams: 186.
Kolnai made a breakthrough in the phenomenology of aversion when he showed the "double intentionality" of emotions like fear, focusing on both the object of fear and the subjects' concern for his own well-being, this being one of the ways in which fear differs from disgust. In a surprising yet persuasive move, Kolnai argues that disgust is never related to inorganic or non-biological 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. Kolnai gives an analytic list of various kinds of disgusting objects (which ... Read more
Kolnai made a breakthrough in the phenomenology of aversion when he showed the "double intentionality" of emotions like fear, focusing on both the object of fear and the subjects' concern for his own well-being, this being one of the ways in which fear differs from disgust. In a surprising yet persuasive move, Kolnai argues that disgust is never related to inorganic or non-biological 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. Kolnai gives an analytic list of various kinds of disgusting objects (which ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
130
Place of Publication
Chicago, IL, United States
ISBN
9780812695663
SKU
V9780812695663
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