The Anatomy of Disgust
Author | : William Ian MILLER |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0674041062 |
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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 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.