Making Sense of Taste : : Food and Philosophy / / Carolyn Korsmeyer.
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 experience,...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 15 halftones, 3 drawings |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1. The Hierarchy of the Senses
- CHAPTER 2. Philosophies of Taste: Aesthetic and N anaesthetic Senses
- CHAPTER 3. The Science of Taste
- CHAPTER 4. The Meaning of Taste and the Taste of Meaning
- CHAPTER 5. The Visual Appetite: Representing Taste and Food
- CHAPTER 6. Narratives Of Eating
- Index