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Record Nr.

UNINA9910282225903321

Titolo

Taste / / edited by Andrea Pavoni; Danilo Mandic; Caterina Nirta; Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : University of Westminster Press, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-911534-32-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 294 pages) : PDF, digital file(s)

Collana

Law and the senses Westminster law & theory lab series

Disciplina

340.115

Soggetti

Senses and sensation

Sociological jurisprudence

Law - Psychological aspects

The arts: general issues

Philosophy

Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

Cultural studies

Jurisprudence & general issues

Jurisprudence & philosophy of law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Taste usually occupies the bottom of the sensorial hierarchy, as the quintessentially hedonistic sense, too close to the animal, the elemental and the corporeal, and for this reason disciplined and moralised. At the same time, taste is indissolubly tied to knowledge. To taste is to discriminate, emit judgement, enter an unstable domain of synaesthetic normativity where the certainty of metaphysical categories begins to crumble. This second title in the ‘Law and the Senses’ series explores law using taste as a conceptual and ontological category able to unsettle legal certainties, and a promising tool whereby to investigate the materiality of law’s relation to the world. For what else is law’s reduction of the world into legal categories, if not law’s ingesting the world by tasting it, and emitting moral and legal judgements



accordingly? Through various topics including coffee, wine, craft cider and Japanese knotweed, this volume explores the normativities that shape the way taste is felt and categorised, within and beyond subjective, phenomenological and human dimensions. The result is an original interdisciplinary volume – complete with seven speculative ‘recipes’ – dedicated to a rarely explored intersection, with contributions from artists, legal academics, philosophers, anthropologists and sociologists.