Books by Aurel Kolnai

Ethics, Value, and Reality is a collection of essays written after Kolnai settled in England in 1955

A collection of essays written after the author settled in England in 1955.

The political memoirs of 20th-century philosopher Aurel Kolnai. He recounts his life, from his childhood in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his education in Germany and his early professional life in pre-war Vienna to his exile in the USA and Canada, before settling in Great Britain.

In On Disgust, pioneering philosopher Aurel Kolnai (1905-1973) draws on Husserl's phenomenological method to examine the experience of disgust. He distinguishes disgust from other emotions of aversion such as fear and contempt and shows how it relates to the five senses. Kolnai argues that disgust is never related to inorganic or nonbiological matter, and that its arousal by moral objects has an underlying similarity with its arousal by organic material: a particular combination of life and death. This book also includes an article published shortly before the author's death titled "The Standard Modes of Aversion: Fear, Disgust, and Hatred."