The Muzzle and the Mirror
The Muzzle and the Mirror Dogs, considered as metaphors for a complicated realm as the ones of emotions, could be able to address the topic in a more direct way. By spreading new perspectives to understand the feelings, dogs and wolves highlight the differences in coping with them, if compared to human beings. The social […]
Repulsive Reverie
Repulsive Reverie “The ambition to write a history of “actual” disgust — its far-reaching constant, as well as variable, forms, its fluctuations in intensity and shifting objects, its de- and resensitizings, its natural and cultural models — meets with almost insurmountable difficulties. [..]” — Winfried Menninghaus, “Disgust: The Theory and History of a Strong […]