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Savoring Disgust: The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics by Carolyn Korsmeyer (Paperback, 2011)

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Disgust is among the strongest of aversions, characterized by involuntary physical recoil and even nausea. In 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 -- anintimate apprehension of physical mortality.