The Anatomy of Disgust Paperback - 1998
by William Ian Miller
Miller embarks on an alluring journey into the world of disgust, showing how it brings order and meaning to our lives, even as it horrifies and revolts us. In this book, Miller maintains that when we are disgusted, we are attempting to set bounds, to keep chaos at bay.
From the rear cover
William Miller details our anxious relation to basic life processes; eating, excreting, fornicating, decaying, and dying. But disgust pushes beyond the flesh to vivify the larger social order with the idiom it commandeers from the sights, smells, tastes, feels, and sounds of fleshly physicality. Disgust and contempt, Miller argues, play crucial political roles in creating and maintaining social hierarchy. Democracy depends less on respect for persons than on an equal distribution of contempt. Disgust, however, signals dangerous division. Miller argues that disgust is deeply grounded in our ambivalence to life: it distresses us that the fair is so fragile, so easily reduced to foulness, and that the foul may seem more than passing fair in certain slants of light. When we are disgusted, we are attempting to set bounds, to keep chaos at bay. Of course we fail. But, as Miller points out, our failure is hardly an occasion for despair, for disgust also helps to animate the world, and to make it a dangerous, magical and exciting place.
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- Title The Anatomy of Disgust
- Author William Ian Miller
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Third Printing
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge
- Date 1998-10-01
- ISBN 9780674031555 / 0674031555
- Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.75 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.91 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 152.4
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