On Disgust

by Aurel Kolnai and Carolyn Korsmeyer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812695666
• ISBN13: 9780812695663
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Open Court
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.2" x 9.0"