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Appetites for Thought : Philosophers and Food.

Appetites for Thought offers up a delectable intellectual challenge: can we better understand the concepts of philosophers from their culinary choices? Guiding us around the philosopher's banquet table with erudition, wit, and irreverence, Michel Onfray offers surprising insights on foods rangi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Onfray, Michel
Otros Autores: Muecke, Stephen, Barry, Donald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: London : Reaktion Books, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Appetites for Thought offers up a delectable intellectual challenge: can we better understand the concepts of philosophers from their culinary choices? Guiding us around the philosopher's banquet table with erudition, wit, and irreverence, Michel Onfray offers surprising insights on foods ranging from fillet of cod to barley soup, from sausage to wine and coffee. Tracing the edible obsessions of philosophers from Diogenes to Sartre, Onfray considers how their ideas relate to their diets. Would Diogenes have been an opponent of civilization without his taste for raw octopus? Would Rousseau have.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (138 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781780234557
1780234554