A scholarly exploration of disgust, examining its role in human life, morality, and social hierarchy.
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A scholarly exploration of disgust, examining its role in human life, morality, and social hierarchy.
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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 political roles in creating and maintaining social hierarchy. Democracy depends less on respect for persons than on an equal distribution of contempt.
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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References to sexual acts and body parts; not graphic but recurring in discussion.
Violence & gore
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Descriptions of bodily decay and grotesque imagery; moderate but unsettling.
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Minor references to Christian concepts in cultural analysis.
Magic & witchcraft
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Brief mentions of witch imagery in literary examples.
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Central focus on disgust's role in politics, democracy, and social hierarchy.
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Discussions of humiliation and social degradation; recurring theme.
Other
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