Purity and Danger Now: New Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367878382 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 286 str.

Robbie Duschinsky; Simone Schnall; Daniel Weiss

Opis

Mary Douglas’s seminal Purity and Danger (Routledge, 1966) continues to be crucial reading for students and scholars. Published in the 50th anniversary year, Purity and Danger Now sets out to shed fresh light upon the themes raised by Douglas by drawing on recent developments in the social sciences and humanities, as well as cu

Spis treści

1. Purity as danger: ‘Purity and Danger revisited’ at fifty  2. Purity and Punning: Political Fundamentalism and Semantic Pollution  Chapter  3. Garbage at Work: Ethics, Subjectivation and Resistance  4. There’s Power in the Dirt: Impurity, Utopianism & Radical Politics  5. Disgust in the Moral Realm: Do All Roads Lead To Character?  6. Disgust, Disease, and Disorder: Impurity as a Mechanism for Psychopathology  7. Distinguishing Disgust From Fear  8. Clean-Moral Effects and Clean-Slate Effects: Physical Cleansing as an Embodied Procedure of Separation  9. Cleanliness Issues: From Individual Practices to Collective Visions  10. Purity and the West: Christianity, Secularism, and the Impurity of Ritual  11. Impurity without repression: Julia Kristeva and the biblical possibilities of a non-eliminationist construction of religious purity  12. Was Kristeva Right… about Qumran? Methodological Implications of a Theoretical Coincidence  13. Purity and Disgust in Shakespeare’s Problem Plays  14. Purity, Painting, and Peeing Out the Window

O autorze

Robbie Duschinsky is University Lecturer in Social Sciences in the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Simone Schnall is Reader in Experimental Social Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Daniel H. Weiss is Polonsky-Coexist Lecturer in Jewish Studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, UK.