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On Disgust [Paperback]

Aurel Kolnai (Author), Barry Smith (Editor), Carolyn Korsmeyer (Editor)

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Publication Date: July 2003

Aurel Kolnai, considered a philosophy pioneer, draws on Husserl’s phenomenological method to dissect disgust. He distinguishes disgust from other emotions of aversion such as fear and contempt and shows how it relates to the five senses. Kolnai argues that disgust is never related to inorganic or nonbiological matter, and that its arousal by moral objects has an underlying similarity with its arousal by organic material: a particular combination of life and death. Included is an article published shortly before the author’s death titled "The Standard Modes of Aversion: Fear, Disgust, and Hatred."

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"includes the first English translation of 1929 work that approaches the subject by way of the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl." -- Chronicle of Higher Education, February 13, 2004 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company (July 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0812695259
ISBN-13: 978-0812695250
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,604,766 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Disgust is a powerful, visceral emotion. Read the first page

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disgust aroused, disgusting objects, moral disgust, intentional object, defense reaction

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Aurel Kolnai, Max Scheler

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Political Memoirs (Religion, Politics, and Society in the New Millennium) by Aurel Kolnai on 4 pages
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Human Emotions (Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy series) by Carroll E. Izard in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
The Naked And The Undead: Evil And The Appeal Of Horror (Thinking Through Cinema) by Cynthia Freeland in Back Matter
Emotions and Reasons: An Inquiry into Emotional Justification by Patricia S. Greenspan in Back Matter

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Logos of Phenomenology and Phenomenology of The Logos, Book 5: The Creative Logos Aesthetic Ciphering in Fine Arts, Literature and Aesthetics (Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 92) by A-T. Tymieniecka on page 259, page 274, and Back Matter
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