The Anatomy of Disgust
by William Ian Miller
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Philosophy, and Psychology.
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 pol...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Philosophy, and Psychology.
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Sam Harris
“There?s a writer ? William Ian Miller ?who I think is unfairly neglected. He writes some fascinating books. Several have been on negative emotions. One book is entitled ?Humiliation,? which was a great read. Just on the phenomenon of being humiliated and differentiating it from embarrassment and other similar emotions. He also wrote a book on disgust called ?The Anatomy of Disgust,? which is also fun.These are very interdisciplinary books. He is a lawyer, I believe or a professor of law. But he goes deep into the relevant Sociology, and these are cool books. | There’s a writer – William Ian Miller –who I think is unfairly neglected. He writes some fascinating books. Several have been on negative emotions. One book is entitled “Humiliation,” which was a great read. Just on the phenomenon of being humiliated and differentiating it from embarrassment and other similar emotions. He also wrote a book on disgust called “The Anatomy of Disgust,” which is also fun.These are very interdisciplinary books. He is a lawyer, I believe or a professor of law. But he goes deep into the relevant Sociology, and these are cool books.”
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