Cover
Title Page
Imprint Page
Contents
Preface
Part I: The Philosophical Landscape of ‘Dirty’ and ‘Clean’
One: Dirt in Philosophy and Culture
Two: A Brief History of Dirt in Philosophy
Three: Dirty and Clean: Main Distinctions
Four: Reductionism and the Role of Science
Part II: ‘Dirty’ and ‘Forbidden’: Anthropological Reductionism and its Limits
Five: Ritual, Disorder and Pollution
Six: Repressing the ‘Other’: The Myth of Abjection
Seven: The Civilizing Process
Eight: Ambiguities of Self-discipline and the Campaign for Civilization
Part III: Settling Accounts with Matter
Nine: Between Facts and Practices
Ten: To Dress and to Keep
Eleven: What Is Mine and What Is Someone Else’s
References
Bibliography
Acknowledgements