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

• Autore: Menninghaus Winfried
• Pubblicazione: Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2003; ©2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 471 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 128/.37
• Soggetto topico: Aversion; Aversion in literature; Aesthetics, Modern; Emotions in art
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-471).
• Sommario/riassunto: "In Disgust, Winfried Menninghaus provides a comprehensive account of the significance of this forceful emotion in philosophy, aesthetics, literature, the arts, psychoanalysis, and theory of culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics addressed include the role of disgust as both a cognitive and moral organon in Kant and Nietzsche; the history of the imagination of the rotting corpse; the counter-cathexis of the disgusting in Romantic poetics and its modernist appeal ever since; the affinities of disgust and laughter and the analogies of vomiting and writing; the foundation of Freudian psychoanalysis in a theory of disgusting pleasures and practices: the association of disgusting "otherness" with truth and the trans-symbolic "real" in Bataille, Sartre, and Kristeva; Kafka's self-representation as an "Angel" of disgusting smells and acts, concealed in a writerly stance of uncompromising "purity"; and recent debates on "Abject Art.""--Jacket
• Titolo autorizzato: Disgust
• ISBN: 0-7914-8631-1; 1-4175-3877-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777456003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Intersections (Albany, N.Y.)