A Philosophy of Dirt

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Imprint Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Part I: The Philosophical Landscape of ‘Dirty’ and ‘Clean’......Page 12
One: Dirt in Philosophy and Culture......Page 13
Two: A Brief History of Dirt in Philosophy......Page 28
Three: Dirty and Clean: Main Distinctions......Page 46
Four: Reductionism and the Role of Science......Page 67
Part II: ‘Dirty’ and ‘Forbidden’: Anthropological Reductionism and its Limits......Page 82
Five: Ritual, Disorder and Pollution......Page 83
Six: Repressing the ‘Other’: The Myth of Abjection......Page 107
Seven: The Civilizing Process......Page 126
Eight: Ambiguities of Self-discipline and the Campaign for Civilization......Page 139
Part III: Settling Accounts with Matter......Page 158
Nine: Between Facts and Practices......Page 159
Ten: To Dress and to Keep......Page 181
Eleven: What Is Mine and What Is Someone Else’s......Page 196
References......Page 215
Bibliography......Page 247
Acknowledgements......Page 256