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EBOOK Meaning of Disgust
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199912407
EAN: 54513C41EB
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Stron: 264
Data wydania: 2011
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Disgust has a strong claim to be a distinctively human emotion. But what is it to        be disgusting? What unifies the class of disgusting things? Colin McGinn sets out to        analyze the content of disgust, arguing that life and death are implicit in its        meaning. Disgust is a kind of philosophical emotion, reflecting the human attitude        to the biological world. Yet it is an emotion we strive to repress. It may have        initially arisen as a method of curbing voracious human desire, which itself results        from our powerful imagination. Because we feel disgust towards ourselves as a        species, we are placed in a fraught emotional predicament: we admire ourselves for        our achievements, but we also experience revulsion at our necessary organic nature.          We are subject to an affective split. Death involves the disgusting, in the shape of        the rotting corpse, and our complex attitudes towards death feed into our feelings        of disgust. We are beings with a "e;disgust consciousness"e;, unlike animals and        gods-and we cannot shake our self-ambivalence. Existentialism and psychoanalysis        sought a general theory of human emotion; this book seeks to replace them with a        theory in which our primary mode of feeling centers around disgust. The Meaning of        Disgust is an original study of a fascinating but neglected subject, which attempts        to tell the disturbing truth about the human condition.

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