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Author:   Robbie Duschinsky ,  Simone Schnall ,  Daniel Weiss
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781138693708

ISBN 10:   1138693707
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   12 January 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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If Purity and Danger Now were simply a reappraisal of an anthropological classic, it would already be a welcome and timely contribution to the many disciplines her work has affected. To its credit, this collection does much more than that. Whereas Douglas highlighted the primacy of the social in structuring categories of purity and impurity, her influential point is here extended, complemented, and corrected by recent insights from social psychological analyses of disgust, new approaches to the agency of matter, and innovative scholarly trends in Judaic studies, literature, and painting. Christopher Forth, University of Kansas, USA Few edited collections work as a whole in the way Purity and Danger Now does; from the introduction through to the conclusion, every chapter is accessible, interesting and, most importantly, makes the reader think more about their own ideas. In addition to being a timely reconsideration and development of Mary Douglas's important work, the book stands on its own as a major contribution to psychosocial and cultural theorisation. It is a book to buy, treasure and keep for any student and researcher across the social sciences, humanities and arts. Debbie Epstein, University of Roehampton, UK Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo is available as a Routledge Classic text www.routledge.com/9780415289955

Author Information

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.

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