Food and Philosophy : Selected Essays / / by Spencer K. Wertz
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| Autore: |
Wertz Spencer K.
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| Titolo: |
Food and Philosophy : Selected Essays / / by Spencer K. Wertz
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| Pubblicazione: | Fort Worth, Texas : , : TCU Press, , 2016 |
| ©2016 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (194 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 641.3001 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cooking - Philosophy |
| Food consumption - Philosophy | |
| Taste - Philosophy | |
| Food - Philosophy | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- Philosophy of food history -- The five flavors and Taoism: Lao Tzu's verse twelve -- The elements of taste: how many are there? -- Leibniz and culinary cognitions: a speculative journey -- Taste and food in Rousseau's Julie, or the new Heloise -- Hume's culinary interests and the historiography of food -- Revel's conception of cuisine: Platonic or Hegelian? -- The analogy between food and art: Tolstoy and Eaton -- Maize: the Native North American's legacy of cultural diversity and biodiversity -- Are genetically modified foods good for you? A pragmatic answer -- Is there a pornography of food? -- Chocolate and its world -- Eating and dining: Collingwood's anthropology. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | These essays on food and philosophy were written over several decades.Not only philosophers and historians but individuals who have an ongoing interest in food should relish them. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Food and Philosophy |
| ISBN: | 0-87565-644-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910163931703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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