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Cooking, Eating, Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food - Softcover

 
9780253207043: Cooking, Eating, Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0253207045 ISBN 13: 9780253207043
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Philosophy has often been criticized for privileging the abstract; this volume attempts to remedy that situation. Focusing on one of the most concrete of human concerns, food, the editors argue for the existence of a philosophy of food. The collection provides various approaches to the subject matter, offering new readings of a number of texts―religious, philosophical, anthropological, culinary, poetic, and economic. Included are readings ranging from Plato's Phaedo and Verses of Sen-No-Rikyu to Peter Singer's "Becoming a Vegetarian" and Jean-François Revel's Culture and Cuisine.

This reader will have particular appeal for philosophers working in social theory, feminist theory, and environmental ethics, and for those working on alternative approaches to such traditional subject areas as epistemology, aesthetics, and metaphysics.

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About the Author

DEANE W. CURTIN, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College, has published in the areas of philosophy of art and environmental ethics. LISA M. HELDKE, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College, writes and teaches in the area of pragmatist feminism.

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0253207045
ISBN 13 
9780253207043
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
416
Editor
Curtin Deane W., Heldke Lisa M.