The anatomy of disgust
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
1 online resource (xv, 320 pages)
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Darwin's disgust
Disgust and its neighbors
Thick, greasy life
The senses
Orifices and bodily wastes
Fair is foul, and foul is fair
Warriors, saints, and delicacy
The moral life of disgust
Mutual contempt and democracy
Orwell's sense of smell
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English
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