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Looking across genres, subjects, and periods, this book examines what our conflicted reaction of both desire and disgust tells us about monsters and their role
The Meaning of Disgust
Language: en
Pages: 259
Authors: Colin McGinn
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-18 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Disgust has a strong claim to be a distinctively human emotion. But what is it to be disgusting? What unifies the class of disgusting things? Colin McGinn sets
Disgust and Desire
Language: en
Pages: 283
Authors: Kristen Wright
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-03 - Publisher: BRILL

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Monsters have taken many forms across time and cultures, yet within these variations, monsters often evoke the same paradoxical response: disgust and desire. We
Naming and Understanding the Opposites of Desire
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The Anatomy of Disgust
Language: en
Pages: 335
Authors: William Ian MILLER
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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William Miller details our anxious relation to basic life processes; eating, excreting, fornicating, decaying, and dying. But disgust pushes beyond the flesh to