Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption: Eating the Avant-Garde
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From Plato's dismissal of food as a distraction from thought to Kant's relegation of the palate to the bottom of the hierarchy of the senses, the sense of taste has consistently been devalued by Western aesthetics. Kant is often invoked as evidence that philosophers consider taste as an inferior sense because it belongs to the realm of the private and subjective and does not seem to be required in the development of higher types of knowledge. From...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0415512883
ISBN13:9780415512886
Release Date:November 2012
Publisher:Routledge
Length:160 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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