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The Meaning of Disgust (Hardcover)
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The Meaning of Disgust (Hardcover)
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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 "disgust consciousness," 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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