Fundamental nausea reveals the facticity of existence beneath all empirical disgusts

Evidence

But idiosyncracy inheres in the particular. The general, that which fits into the functional context of society, is considered to be natural. But nature which has not been transformed through the channels of conceptual order into something purposeful, the grating sound of a stylus moving over a slate, the haut gout which recalls filth and decomposition, the sweat which appears on the brow of the busy man—everything which has failed to keep up, or which infringes the commandments which are the sedimented progress of the centuries—has a penetrating effect; it arouses disgust. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 137 (#expands, via linked claim)

While interviewing Sartre in the early 1980s, just before his death, Beauvoir asks him directly if his understanding of the slimy is informed, not by his ontological insight, but rather by his personal dispositions. … Sartre accepts Beauvoir’s suggestion and adds that all forms of animal life arouse disgust in him- molluscs and arthropods in particular. For him, their movements indicate that their life-form belongs to “another world,” “another universe,” separated from humans and everything that humans can cultivate (Ent, 448, 470; AFS, 316, 332). — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 392 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nausea reveals facticity through the body’s inescapable belonging to being; Nausea is the nonpositional apprehension of one’s own contingent facticity, not a metaphor — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 886; Unassimilated particularity that resists conceptual order arouses visceral disgust — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 137 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• The slimy haunts consciousness as its own feared dissolution into facticity #expands (0.85)
• Unassimilated particularity that resists conceptual order arouses visceral disgust #expands (0.82) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 137
• Forcing meaningless acts on a person produces existential disgust and despair. #qualifies (0.75)
• Sartre’s ontology of the slimy derived from personal disgust rather than pure insight #complicates (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 392
• Fiction writers can develop genuine nausea and crisis over the artificiality of made-up narrative #exemplifies (0.72)