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Making Sense of Taste : Food and Philosophy /

"Taste, perhaps the most intimate of the five senses, has traditionally been considered beneath the concern of philosophy, too bound to the body, too personal and idiosyncratic. Yet, in addition to providing physical pleasure, eating and drinking bear symbolic and aesthetic value in human exper...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Korsmeyer, Carolyn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. The Hierarchy of the Senses
  • Ch. 2. Philosophies of Taste: Aesthetic and Nonaesthetic Senses
  • Ch. 3. The Science of Taste
  • Ch. 4. The Meaning of Taste and the Taste of Meaning
  • Ch. 5. The Visual Appetite: Representing Taste and Food
  • Ch. 6. Narratives of Eating.