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This article challenges the common tendency in modern research to treat impurity as a religious phenomenon divorced from mundane concerns. Employing the cross-cultural psychological notion of “contagion,” this investigation examines the... more
In a season of time, a darken journey I was on; held by this Federal Prison of habitation this summer morning a voice said come let us play in the noise of this prison around me again this voice said come and play with me.
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There is a growing evidence that emotions shape people's reactions to the climate crisis in profound but complex ways. Climate emotions are related to resilience, climate action, and psychological well-being and health. However, there is... more
In this book, I claim that disgust is an emotion that marks aesthetic conflicts. An aesthetic conflict is a conflict that should neither be understood in moral terms nor in political ones. After analyzing the meaning of the word... more
This draft paper starts from Ælfric's Letter to Brother Edward, in which he expresses profound disgust against women who have beer-parties while sitting on the privy. It notes that when Ælfric depicts disgusting bodies they are usually... more
Human faces are not usually objects of disgust. However, this can be diffuse if there are some kind of malformations or if they are masks of dead peo-ple. Corpses disgust us not only by reminding us of our mortal condition, but also by... more
Artykuł jest próbą analizy performatywności kategorii estetycznej jaką jest wstręt. Jego celem jest stworzenie bazy podstawowych typów akcji dramaturgicznych, które przysłużą się do analizy wizualności współczesnego teatru w perspektywie... more
Cet article explore le travail prolifique et controversé de l'actrice Lena Dunham et s'intéresse à trois aspects en particulier : la visibilité relativement récente de corps féminins considérés comme « dégoûtants » dans la culture... more
Traduzione integrale del saggio di Aurel Kolnai Der Ekel, pubblicato sullo Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung nel 1929. Un saggio importante e a lungo dimenticato che influenzò Dalì, Bataille, Sartre. Allego qui... more
Presentation of the methodological/theoretical approach developed in my dissertation at the Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures. TU Dresden.
The present article explores the multileveled function of disgust in biblical purity discourse as an embodied emotion, a conceptual framework, and a rhetorical strategy. The methodological approach is broadly evolutionary... more
Aurel Kolnai (1900–1973) is best known for his political and moral writings, but he also chiefly contributed to the phenomenology of the emotions. In a series of papers devoted to hostile and aversive emotions and, in particular, to... more
Una nuova forma di incredulità, diceva Bernard Stigler in riferimento a quella che chiamava "immagine discreta", ma questa incredulità si dovrà pur esercitare su un corpo. Proprio su questo gioca Maisie Cousins (n. Londra 1992 – vivente),... more
From Plato’s dismissal of food as a distraction from thought to Kant’s relegation of the palate to the bottom of the hierarchy of the senses, the sense of taste has consistently been devalued by Western aesthetics. Kant is often invoked... more
An overview of current theories (including mine) on sensory and interpersonal disgust. This is the first and only paper that I know of that attempts to explain why humans are the only species known to experience disgust.
This paper explores how the television series Hannibal (NBC, 2013-2015) conveys a deep aesthetic delectation, despite presenting numerous repulsive or uncomfortable scenes. The article analyzes how the very serial nature of TV fiction... more
In a much-publicized paper, Zhong and Liljenquist (2006) reported evidence that feelings of moral cleanliness are grounded in feelings of physical cleanliness: a threat to people’s moral purity leads them to seek, literally, to cleanse... more
A proposta de se levar a sério a maneira como a corporalidade e os fluidos corpo- rais são elementos significativos em determinados contextos ainda é relativamente recente na ciência antropológica. Este artigo é uma contribuição nesse... more
Is an hypothesis about how is produced the desire and the disgust with neurotransmitters created in 17/12/2021 by JoanCarles Testagorda Garcia of the work Anatomia Magna vol.I created by JoanCarles Testagorda Garcia
After reviewing the theory and history of Disgust which has only taken off since 1990, this paper sets off to explore why and how N. Nikolaides’ Singapore Sling is disgusting and follows a revision of the theory of Abjection as well as... more
This paper, under Craig Ferguson’s astute critique of American culture, examines how the White American Protestant church has been “Sanitized for your convenience” discarding the dirty or socially uncomfortable in favor of presenting a... more
Ph.D-Thesis, Defended February 8, 2016 Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen Evaluation commitee: Professor Heidi L. Maibom, Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati. Professor Arne Johan Vetlesen, Department of... more
I argue that our best science supports the rationalist idea that, independent of reasoning, emotions aren't integral to moral judgment. There's ample evidence that ordinary moral cognition often involves conscious and unconscious... more
In The Ancient Emotion of Disgust, eds. Dimos Spatharas and Donald Lateiner. Oxford University Press, 189-202.
A review of Jonathan Newell's monograph A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937: Disgust, Metaphysics, and the Aesthetics of Cosmic Horror. The book focuses on the Weird tale's use of disgust as an affective mode to explore questions of... more
Fear, sadness, anger and disgust are considered affective states, that when they become frequent and intense, adversely affect the quality of life. Consequently, negative emotions are regarded as one of the key risk factors in physical... more
The caste order - like all social hierarchies - structures emotions in particular ways, and in turn depends on emotions, thus structured, for its reproduction over time. In North Indian vernaculars, to ask who feels ghṛṇā (disgust)... more
Dissertation by Jessica Adkins
It is important to pay attention to the Acridophages’ phenomenon, because there are ongoing attempts in order to extend the use of locusts as worldwide food, as showed by the Fao documents or by the initiatives organized by the 2015 Expo... more
This essay reinterprets Kundera’s best-known novel through philosophical considerations of vulnerability and the human/animal relationship. It begins with an understanding of irony—associated with Cora Diamond’s notion of embodiment... more
In his critical and his later work, Kant recommends apathy to the moral agent faced with pathological phenomena. Notoriously, Kant even rejects compassion (Mitleiden) as pathological. A deconstruction of Kant's 'apathology', i.e. of his... more
This article examines thirteen terms that connote disgust about food, drink, sex, gods, offerings, prayers, peoples, lands, persons, injustice, and life. The terms form two different “codes” for social orientation. An international,... more