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16%OFFWilliam Ian Miller - The Anatomy of Disgust - 9780674031555 - V9780674031555
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The Anatomy of Disgust

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Description for The Anatomy of Disgust Paperback. Does disgust bring order and meaning to lives? Does it help to animate the world, and make it a more dangerous, magical and exciting place? The author analyzes the world of disgust and makes these points, arguing that disgust and contempt play roles in creating and maintaining social hierarchy. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 580.

William Miller embarks on an alluring journey into the world of disgust, showing how it brings order and meaning to our lives even as it horrifies and revolts us. Our notion of the self, intimately dependent as it is on our response to the excretions and secretions of our bodies, depends on it. Cultural identities have frequent recourse to its boundary-policing powers. Love depends on overcoming it, while the pleasure of sex comes in large measure from the titillating violation of disgust prohibitions. Imagine aesthetics without disgust for tastelessness and vulgarity; imagine morality without disgust for evil, hypocrisy, stupidity, and ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674031555
SKU
V9780674031555
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99-1

About William Ian Miller
William Ian Miller is Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.

Reviews for The Anatomy of Disgust
William Ian Miller...meticulously dissects the notion of disgust with the rigor of a legal brief, trying to determine its boundaries and powers.
Edward Rothstein
New York Times
Having ably dissected humiliation in his 1993 book of that title, Miller now sets his keen insights on something even more fundamental to the human condition: disgust. It is easy ... Read more

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