On Disgust
by
Aurel Kolnai
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0812695666
ISBN-13
9780812695663
Publisher
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
Imprint
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 11th, 2003
Print length
130 Pages
Weight
216 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 22.80 x 1.10 cms
Product Classification:
Philosophy of mind
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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.
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