LEADER 04123nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910455168903321 005 20211221131711.0 010 $a0-674-04106-2 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674041066 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805619 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050807 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000103210 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11120160 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000103210 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10061441 035 $a(PQKB)10283498 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300627 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300627 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10328804 035 $a(OCoLC)923112461 035 $a(DE-B1597)571804 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674041066 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805619 100 $a19960806d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe anatomy of disgust$b[electronic resource] /$fWilliam Ian Miller 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d1997 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 320 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-03154-7 311 $a0-674-03155-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [300]-313) and index. 327 $aPrologue 1. Darwin's Disgust 2. Disgust and Its Neighbors 3. Thick, Greasy Life 4. The Senses 5. Orifices and Bodily Wastes 6. Fair Is Foul, and Foul Is Fair 7. Warriors, Saints, and Delicacy 8. The Moral Life of Disgust 9. Mutual Contempt and Democracy 10. Orwell's Sense of Smell Notes Works Cited Index 330 $aWilliam 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. 330 $bWilliam 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 cruelty. Miller details our anxious relation to basic life processes: eating, excreting, fornicating, decaying, and dying. But disgust pushes beyond the flesh to vivify the larger social order with the idiom it commandeers from the sights, smells, tastes, feels, and sounds of fleshly physicality. Disgust and contempt, Miller argues, play crucial political roles in creating and maintaining social hierarchy. Democracy depends less on respect for persons than on an equal distribution of contempt. Disgust, however, signals dangerous division. The high's belief that the low actually smell bad, or are sources of pollution, seriously threatens democracy. Miller argues that disgust is deeply grounded in our ambivalence to life: it distresses us that the fair is so fragile, so easily reduced to foulness, and that the foul may seem more than passing fair in certain slants of light. When we are disgusted, we are attempting to set bounds, to keep chaos at bay. Of course we fail. But, as Miller points out, our failure is hardly an occasion for despair, for disgust also helps to animate the world, and to make it a dangerous, magical, and exciting place. 606 $aAversion 606 $aEmotions 606 $aPassions$2lemac 606 $aAversió$2lemac 606 $aEmocions$2lemac 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAversion. 615 0$aEmotions. 615 7$aPassions 615 7$aAversió 615 7$aEmocions 676 $a152.4 700 $aMiller$b William Ian$f1946-$0222661 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455168903321 996 $aAnatomy of disgust$91260975 997 $aUNINA