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INTRODUCTION: BETWEEN VOMITING AND LAUGHING.
BASE LINES OF A PHILOSOPHY OF DISGUST
Exposition / Subject Matter and Objectives of the Present Study / Aurel Kolnai, ‘Der Ekel’ (Disgust) / Democracy as Source of Disgust: William Ian Miller’s The Anatomy of Disgust
1. THE DISGUST TABOO, AND THE OMNIPRESENCE OF DISGUST IN AESTHETIC THEORY
The Beautiful as Vomitive / Aesthetic Infinity as Antivomitive / ‘Mixed Sensations’ and the Exception of Disgust / Pleasure and Displeasure / The ‘Darkest of all the Senses’ and the Collapse of Aesthetic Illusion in Disgust / Semanticized and ‘Crude’ Disgust
2. DISGUSTING ZONES AND DISGUSTING TIMES: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IDEALLY BEAUTIFUL BODY
The Ideal Skin and Disgust at Folds and Wrinkles, Layers of Cartilage and Fat / Disgusting Depths and the Body’s Openings / Forever young / The Gaping Mouth / Nose-Disgust and the ‘Greek Profile’ / The ‘Flattened Ear’ / ‘Disgusting Breasts’ and Ideal ‘Hills’ / Invisibility, Unseen Nakedness, and ‘Wetted Garments’ / A Body ‘Without a Belly’ / The ‘Spare Behind’ / Excision, Castration, Hermaphroditization: the Phallus in the Field of the Beautiful / The ‘Hypergigantic’ Sex of the ‘Colossal Woman’ / Wounds, Dismembered Limbs, Flayed Skin: The Body as a ‘Disgusting Thing’ / Beautiful Death and Disgusting Decay / The Ugly Old Lady / Repression or Differentiation? / Disgust, Purity, and Impurity in the Aesthetic
3. ‘STRONG VITAL SENSATION’ AND ORGANON OF PHILOSOPHY: THE JUDGMENT OF DISGUST IN KANT
Disgust and Pleasure / Disgust as a Goal of Education / Smell, Taste, and the ‘Vital Sensation’ of Disgust / Disgust, Laughter, and ‘Dark Conceptions’ / Disgust as an Organon of Intellectual Critique / Disgust as Organon of Practical Action / Disgust, Happiness and Unhappiness, Ennui
4. POETRY OF PUTREFACTION: ‘BEAUTIFUL DISGUST’ AND THE PATHOLOGY OF THE ‘ROMANTIC’
Classical Disgust and the Basic Alterations of the Aesthetic Field around 1800 / The Disgusting as Stimulus-Increase and Recipe of Modern ‘Shock’-Aesthetics / The License of ‘Disgusting Impotence’ and the Decay of the Negative Principle / Disgusting Souls, Disgusting Times, and the Art of the Disgusting: The ‘Romantic’ Ubiquity of the Once-Tabood / Rosenkranz on the Disgusting (1): Putrefaction as an ‘Inverse Becoming of the Already Dead’ / Baudelaire’s Poem ‘Une charogne’ / Rosenkranz on the Disgusting (2): The Return of Indigestibility in the System of Dialectic Appropriation
5. THE ‘NO’ OF DISGUST AND NIETZSCHE’S ‘TRAGEDY’ OF KNOWLEDGE
Plato, Jesus, and Morals as World-Historical Agents of Disgust / ‘Ressentiment’ and Weakness as Catalysts of Modern ‘Moralizing’–The Disgusting Mixture of Lies and Innocence / ‘Mollycoddling’ as Disgust at one’s own Cruelty / The Disgusting Body and Nietzsche’s Physiology / ‘Great Disgust’ and Contemporary Literature / Disgust and Cognition / Education for Disgust / Overcoming Disgust / Nietzsche Vetula
6. THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF STINKING: LIBIDO, DISGUST, AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN FREUD
Interpretations of Disgust in Evolutionary Theory before Freud / Freud’s Birth / Disgust, Aesthetic Culture, Antie-Aesthetic Libido / The Triumph of Libido: the ‘Perverse’ Overcoming of Disgust / Perverse Father, Servant Girl, and Prostitute / Habemus Vetulam / Disgust and the Choice of Neurosis / Excretion as Prototype of Social Acts, and the Copro-Erotics of Language / ‘Disgusting Abuses, ‘ ‘Primeval Devil Worship, ‘ and the Equation of Analyst and Torturer / Art as Suspension of Disgust and Guiltless ‘Enjoyment’ of the Rejected / Research on Disgust in Empirical Psychology after Freud
7. THE ANGEL OF DISGUST: KAFKA’S POETICS OF ‘INNOCENT’ ENJOYMENT OF ‘SULPHUROUS’ PLEASURES
7.1. Ugly Maidservants, Fat Old Whores, Sexual Disgust, and ‘Sulphurous’ Obessions
Felice and Other Women with Un-Greek Noses, Skin Defects, and Bad Teeth / ‘Old Maids’ / ‘I Want Only the Stout Older Ones’ / Disgust with Conjugal Sexuality versus Pleasure in Disgusting Sex Outside of Marriage / ‘Innocence’ and ‘You Must Possess Every Girl!’ / ‘Dirty Fellow, ‘ Dancing and Swinging Pigs, Stinking Bitches and Self-Knowledge / Kafka the ‘Flabby Worm:’ The Method of Making ‘Abominable Peculiarities’ Invisible through the Form of Their Disclosure
7.2. The Transformation of the Abject into ‘Guiltless Enjoyment:’ Writing as Devlish-Angelic ‘Deceiving without Deception’
7.3. Disgusting Sexuality in Kafka’s Novels
Amerika, or the Trajectory of Male Innocence in the Realm of ‘Repellent’ Female Practices / Loathsome Power and K.’s ‘Sexual Etiquette’ in The Trial and The Castle
7.4. A Poetics of Eating and Vomiting
Broken Engagements and Disgust with Meat, Spoiled Old Food and Laxatives / On Hard Sausages and Filthy Breakfasts: Nutrition and Narration in Kafka’s Amerika / Breakfast, Old Woman, and Arrest: The Opening Chapter of The Trial / Orgies of Flesh-Eating and Intoxication with Blood in Kafka’s (Hunger) Stories
7.5. Incisions in Flesh and the Knife of Literature
Torture, Truth, and Disembowelled Pigs / ‘Like a Dog:’ K.’s Execution as the Summa of Kafka’s Knife-Poetics / The ‘Stupidity’ of Torture
7.6. The Wound in the Text and the Text as Wound: The Story ‘A Country Doctor’
7.7. Beer-Drinking Hearse-Drivers and Cheerful Gravediggers
7.8. ‘Horrible Words’ and Kafka’s Physiology of Writing
8. Holy Disgust (Bataille) and the Sticky Jelly of Existence (Sartre)
Anti-Aesthetic of the ‘Formless:’ Materialism of the Debased, Pollution of the Beautiful, Self-Mutilation, and the ‘Bliss’ of Anal-Sadistic Ravages / Disgust Prohibitions and their Transgression as Societal ‘Core’ and Stimulating Medium of Erotic Violence / ‘La Nausée: c’est moi’–Sartre’s Elevation of Disgust to the Sole Authentic Experience of Existence
9. Abject Mother (Kristeva), Abject Art, and the Convergence of Disgust, Truth, and the Real
Repression, Repudiation, Abjection / Abject Mother, Symbolic Order, Desire / Abjection, Disgust, and Jouissance / Literature as (Perverse) Reclamation of the Abandoned / Rhythm, Laughing Apocalypse, Happy Guilt / Abject Pleasure, Disgust, Truth and the Real / Grand Narratives of the Heterogeneous / AIDS, Disgust, and Affirmative Abjection: On the Political Appropriation of Kristeva / The Academic Career of the ‘Abject’ / Abject Art
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