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[Enhanced Credo edition] |
| Description |
1 online resource (17 entries) ; digital files. |
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text rdacontent |
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electronic isbdmedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Part I. The philosophical landscape of 'clean' and 'dirty'. 1. Dirt in philosophy and culture ; 2. A brief history of dirt in philosophy ; 3. Dirty and clean: main distinctions ; 4. Reductionism and the role of science -- Part II. 'Dirty' and 'forbidden': anthropological reductionism and its limits. 5. Ritual, disorder and pollution ; 6. Repressing the 'other': the myth of abjection ; 7. The civilizing process ; 8. Ambiguities of self-discipline and the campaign for civilization -- Part III. Settling accounts with matter. 9. Between facts and practices ; 10. To dress and to keep ; 11. What is mine and what is someone else's. |
| Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
In this learned, witty and groundbreaking study, Olli Lagerspetz offers a persuasive discussion of dirt and its ramifications in philosophy and culture. |
| Form |
Also available in print version. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on title page of print version. |
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Purity (Philosophy)
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Orderliness.
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Sanitation -- Philosophy.
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Hygiene -- Philosophy.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1780239181 9781780239187 |
| ISBN |
9781803163567 electronic version |
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1780239181 print |
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9781780239187 print |
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