1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452053903321

Autore

Menninghaus Winfried

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003

ISBN

0-7914-8631-1

1-4175-3877-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (480 p.)

Collana

SUNY series, Intersections

Disciplina

128/.37

Soggetti

Aversion

Aesthetics, Modern

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-471).

Nota di contenuto

""Disgust""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction: Between Vomiting and Laughing: Baselines of a Philosophy of Disgust""; ""EXPOSITION""; ""SUBJECT MATTER AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PRESENT STUDY""; ""AUREL KOLNAI, “DER EKEL� (DISGUST)""; ""DEMOCRACY AS A SOURCE OF DISGUST: WILLIAM IAN MILLER�S THE ANATOMY OF DISGUST""; ""1. The Disgust Taboo, and the Omnipresence of Disgust in Aesthetic Theory""; ""THE BEAUTIFUL AS VOMITIVE""; ""AESTHETIC INFINITY AS ANTIVOMITIVE""; ""“MIXED SENSATIONS� AND THE EXCEPTION OF DISGUST""; ""PLEASURE AND DISPLEASURE""

""THE “DARKEST OF ALL THE SENSES� AND THE COLLAPSE OF AESTHETIC ILLUSION IN DISGUST""""SEMANTICIZED AND “CRUDE� DISGUST""; ""2. Disgusting Zones and Disgusting Times: The Construction of the Ideally Beautiful Body""; ""THE IDEAL SKIN AND DISGUST AT FOLDS AND WRINKLES, LAYERS OF CARTILAGE AND FAT""; ""DISGUSTING DEPTHS AND THE BODY�S OPENINGS""; ""FOREVER YOUNG""; ""THE GAPING MOUTH""; ""NOSE-DISGUST AND THE “GREEK PROFILE�""; ""THE “FLATTENED EAR�""; ""“DISGUSTING BREASTS� AND IDEAL “HILLS�""; ""INVISIBILITY, UNSEEN NAKEDNESS, AND “WETTED GARMENTS�""



""A BODY “WITHOUT A BELLY�""""THE “SPARE BEHIND�""; ""EXCISION, CASTRATION, HERMAPHRODITIZATION: THE PHALLUS IN THE FIELD OF THE BEAUTIFUL""; ""THE “HYPERGIGANTIC� SEX OF THE “COLOSSAL WOMAN�""; ""WOUNDS, DISMEMBERED LIMBS, FLAYED SKIN: THE BODY AS A “DISGUSTING THING�""; ""BEAUTIFUL DEATH AND DISGUSTING DECAY""; ""THE UGLY OLD LADY""; ""REPRESSION OR DIFFERENTIATION?""; ""DISGUST, PURITY, AND IMPURITY IN THE AESTHETIC""; ""3. “Strong Vital Sensation� and Organon of Philosophy: The Judgment of Disgust in Kant""; ""DISGUST AND PLEASURE""

""DISGUST AS A GOAL OF EDUCATION""""SMELL, TASTE, AND THE “VITAL SENSATION� OF DISGUST""; ""DISGUST, LAUGHTER, AND “DARK CONCEPTIONS�""; ""DISGUST AS AN ORGANON OF INTELLECTUAL CRITIQUE""; ""DISGUST AS ORGANON OF PRACTICAL ACTION""; ""DISGUST, HAPPINESS AND UNHAPPINESS, ENNUI""; ""4. Poetry of Putrefaction: “Beautiful Disgust� and the Pathology of the “Romantic�""; ""CLASSICAL DISGUST AND THE BASIC ALTERATIONS OF THE AESTHETIC FIELD AROUND 1800""; ""THE DISGUSTING AS STIMULUS-INCREASE AND RECIPE OF MODERN “SHOCK�-AESTHETICS""

""THE LICENSE OF “DISGUSTING IMPOTENCE� AND THE DECAY OF THE NEGATIVE PRINCIPLE""""DISGUSTING SOULS, DISGUSTING TIMES, AND THE ART OF THE DISGUSTING: THE “ROMANTIC� UBIQUITY OF THE ONCE-TABOOD""; ""ROSENKRANZ ON THE DISGUSTING (1): PUTREFACTION AS AN “INVERSE BECOMING OF THE ALREADY DEAD�""; ""BAUDELAIRE�S POEM “UNE CHAROGNE�""; ""ROSENKRANZ ON THE DISGUSTING (2): THE RETURN OF INDIGESTIBILITY IN THE SYSTEM OF DIALECTIC APPROPRIATION""; ""5. The “No� of Disgust and Nietzsche�s “Tragedy� of Knowledge""

""PLATO, JESUS, AND MORALS AS WORLD-HISTORICAL AGENTS OF DISGUST""