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Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy download free [PDF and Ebook] by Carolyn Korsmeyer

Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy download free [PDF and Ebook] by Carolyn Korsmeyer year 2002
  • Book name: Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy
  • Author: Carolyn Korsmeyer
  • Release date: 2002/6/27
  • Publisher: CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Technology and Engineering
  • ISBN: 9780801488139
  • Rating: 8.78 of 10
  • Votes: 223
  • Review by: Camilla Kovach
  • Review rating: 8.12 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/10/25
  • Total pages: 240
  • Includes a PDF summary of 20 pages
  • Description or summary of the book: 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, and they continually inspire writers and artists.In Making Sense of Taste, Carolyn Korsmeyer explains how taste came to occupy so low a place in the hierarchy of senses and why it is deserving of greater philosophical respect and attention. Korsmeyer begins with the Greek thinkers who classified taste as an inferior, bodily sense; she then traces the parallels between notions of aesthetic and gustatory taste that were explored in the formation of modern aesthetic theories. She presents scientific views of how taste actually works and identifies multiple components of taste experiences.Turning to taste's objects-food and drink-she looks at the different meanings they convey in art and literature as well as in ordinary human life and proposes an approach to the aesthetic value of taste that recognizes the representational and expressive roles of food. Korsmeyer's consideration of art encompasses works that employ food in contexts sacred and profane, that seek to whet the appetite and to keep it at bay; her selection of literary vignettes ranges from narratives of macabre devouring to stories of communities forged by shared eating.
  • Estimated reading time (average reader): 12H31M59S
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Philosophy: Aesthetics, History: Specific Events & Topics, General Cookery, Food & Drink, Food & Beverage Technology
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 26.06 USD
  • Dimensions: 156x235x16.51mm
  • Weight: 369g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: Ithaca, United States
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Genres
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Years
2001 1992 2014 1988 1985 1996
Publishers
HODDER EDUCATION KOGAN PAGE LTD CENGAGE LEARNING, INC VAN HAREN PUBLISHING CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS BIRKHAUSER