{"product_id":"savoring-disgust-the-foul-and-the-fair-in-aesthetics-paperback","title":"Savoring Disgust: The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarolyn Korsmeyer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisgust is among the strongest of aversions, characterized by involuntary physical recoil and even nausea. Yet paradoxically, disgusting objects can sometimes exert a grisly allure, and this emotion can constitute a positive, appreciative aesthetic response when exploited by works of art -- a phenomenon labelled here \"aesthetic disgust.\" While the reactive, visceral quality of disgust contributes to its misleading reputation as a relatively \"primitive\" response mechanism, it is this feature that also gives it a particular aesthetic power when manifest in art. \u003cbr\u003eMost treatments of disgust mistakenly interpret it as only an extreme response, thereby neglecting the many subtle ways that it operates aesthetically. This study calls attention to the diversity and depth of its uses, analyzing the emotion in detail and considering the enormous variety of aesthetic forms it can assume in works of art and --unexpectedly-- even in foods. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the process of articulating a positive role for disgust, this book examines the nature of aesthetic apprehension and argues for the distinctive mode of cognition that disgust affords -- an intimate apprehension of physical mortality. Despite some commonalities attached to the meaning of disgust, this emotion assumes many aesthetic forms: it can be funny, profound, witty, ironic, unsettling, sorrowful, or gross. To demonstrate this diversity, several chapters review examples of disgust as it is aroused by art. The book ends by investigating to what extent disgust can be discovered in art that is also considered beautiful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarolyn Korsmeyer \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo. She is the author of numerous works in philosophy, especially aesthetics and philosophy of art, including \u003cem\u003eMaking Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy \u003c\/em\u003e(1999) and \u003cem\u003eGender and Aesthetics: An Introduction\u003c\/em\u003e (2004). She is a past president of the American Society for Aesthetics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 17, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45257858580582,"sku":"9780199756933","price":111.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/K1hiRVcydzQyWHVPYzNmMXQ3TGhIQT09.webp?v=1773805832","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/savoring-disgust-the-foul-and-the-fair-in-aesthetics-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}