What's That Smell?: A Philosophy of the Olfactory
Hajdini, Simon
- 出版商: MIT
- 出版日期: 2024-03-05
- 售價: $1,250
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,188
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 216
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 0262547562
- ISBN-13: 9780262547567
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商品描述
How our sense of smell engages with philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political economy--and how it can help enrich our understanding of the nature of truth, language, economy, and sexuality. Why is it that, in Indo-European languages at least, we have no language to describe smells, leaving us (and famously Juliet) no choice but to call the scent of a rose simply "sweet"? In What's That Smell?, a groundbreaking exploration of the intersection between philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the oft-neglected sense of smell, Simon Hajdini sets out to answer this complex question. Through new readings of traditional and modern philosophical texts, Hajdini places smell at the very center of a philosophical critique of the traditional notion of truth, challenging the idea that smell is the antiphilosophical sense par excellence. Through fresh engagements with fundamental philosophical issues, original analyses of modern literature and film, and the novel use of scientific research into smell within a humanities context, Hajdini situates problems of olfaction at the very point of inception of cultural life. He proposes that ontology, civilization, and capitalist economy alike can be said to amount to "shit management." And only by following the philosophically most deplorable of the senses, the book argues, can we better understand the central philosophical, psychoanalytical, and political issues of truth, sex, and exploitation.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
我們的嗅覺如何與哲學、精神分析和政治經濟相互關聯,以及它如何有助於豐富我們對真理、語言、經濟和性的理解。
為什麼至少在印歐語系中,我們沒有一種語言來描述氣味,只能像著名的茱麗葉一樣,只能稱玫瑰的香味為「甜」呢?在《那是什麼味道?》這本開創性的探索哲學、精神分析和常被忽視的嗅覺之間交集的書中,西蒙·哈吉尼試圖回答這個複雜的問題。通過對傳統和現代哲學文本的新閱讀,哈吉尼將嗅覺置於對傳統真理觀念的哲學批判的核心位置,挑戰嗅覺是最反哲學的感官的觀點。
通過對基本哲學問題的新鮮探討,對現代文學和電影的原創分析,以及在人文學科背景下對嗅覺的科學研究的新用途,哈吉尼將嗅覺問題置於文化生活的起點。他提出本體論、文明和資本主義經濟都可以被認為是「糞便管理」。這本書主張,只有通過追隨最令人遺憾的感官,我們才能更好地理解真理、性和剝削等核心哲學、精神分析和政治問題。
作者簡介
Simon Hajdini is Senior Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. He is the author of two books in Slovene and several research articles in contemporary philosophy, social and political theory, German idealism, and psychoanalysis.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Simon Hajdini是斯洛文尼亞盧布爾雅那大學哲學系的高級研究助理。他是兩本斯洛文尼亞語書籍的作者,並且在當代哲學、社會和政治理論、德國唯心論和精神分析等領域發表了多篇研究文章。