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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 […]