Description
| Product ID: | 9780812695663 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | On Disgust |
| Authors: | Author: Aurel Kolnai, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Barry Smith |
| Page Count: | 130 |
| Subjects: | Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of mind |
| Description: | In On Disgust, pioneering philosopher Aurel Kolnai (1905-1973) draws on Husserl''s phenomenological method to examine the experience of 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. This book also includes an article published shortly before the author''s death titled "The Standard Modes of Aversion: Fear, Disgust, and Hatred." Kolnai made a breakthrough in the phenomenology of aversion when he showed the "double intentionality" of emotions like fear, focusing on both the object of fear and the subjects' concern for his own well-being, this being one of the ways in which fear differs from disgust. In a surprising yet persuasive move, Kolnai argues that disgust is never related to inorganic or non-biological 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. Kolnai gives an analytic list of various kinds of disgusting objects (which should not be read just before lunch) and shows how disgust relates to the five senses. |
| Imprint Name: | Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. |
| Publisher Name: | Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2003-12-11 |
