The meaning of disgust / Colin McGinn.

New York : Oxford University Press, [2011], ©2011.

viii, 248 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The analysis of disgust -- The aversive emotions -- The elicitors of disgust -- The architecture of disgust -- Theories of disgust -- Handling the cases -- The function of disgust -- Disgust and the human condition -- Our dual nature -- Repression and disgust -- Thoughts of death -- Culture and disgust.