Ebook {Epub PDF} The Anatomy of Disgust by William Ian Miller

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 www.doorway.ru Interaction Count: William 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. Our notion of the self, intimately dependent as it is on our response to the excretions and secretions of our bodies, depends on it/5(18). William Ian Miller is the author of The Anatomy of Disgust ( avg rating, ratings, 18 reviews, published ), Bloodtaking and Peacemaking ( /5.

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. Click to read more about The Anatomy of Disgust by William Ian Miller. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. The Anatomy of Disgust. "William Ian Miller meticulously dissects the notion of disgust with the rigor of a legal brief, trying to determine its boundaries and powers. "—Edward Rothstein, New York Times. " Having ably dissected humiliation in his book of that title, Miller now sets his keen insights on something even more.

The Anatomy of Disgust. William Ian Miller. Harvard University Press, - FAMILY . “ While The Anatomy of Disgust does disgust, it also enthralls, enlightens, dazzles and entertains. It "anatomizes" disgust--which Miller defines as a "strong sense of aversion to something perceived as dangerous because of its powers to contaminate, infect or pollute"--by exploring it as both a physical sensation and a moral sentiment. In both cases, it turns out, disgust has enormous political and social implications. “While The Anatomy of Disgust does disgust, it also enthralls, enlightens, dazzles and entertains. It "anatomizes" disgust--which Miller defines as a "strong sense of aversion to something perceived as dangerous because of its powers to contaminate, infect or pollute"--by exploring it as both a physical sensation and a moral sentiment.