Food and Philosophy

Selected Essays

Spencer K. Wertz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2017
Texas Christian University Press (Verlag)
978-0-87565-638-0 (ISBN)

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These essays cover wide-ranging topics that include genetically modified organisms, chocolate and its world, food as art, the pornography of food, and the five flavours of Chinese cuisine. In addition, there are several chapters that deal with the refinement of erudite (professional) cuisine from popular (regional) cuisine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe.

These essays on Food and Philosophy were written over several decades. Not only philosophers and historians but individuals who have an ongoing interest in food should relish them. The essays cover wide-ranging topics that include genetically modified organisms, chocolate and its world, food as art, the pornography of food, and the five flavors of Chinese cuisine. In addition, there are several chapters that deal with the refinement of erudite (professional) cuisine from popular (regional) cuisine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe. One chapter stands alone as an analysis of the Native American cultural foundations of maize. The book opens with an essay on the philosophy of food history that addresses three fundamental problems: the duplication of sensations and taste, the understanding of recipes from other historical periods, and the sorts of judgments that are included or excluded in a historical narrative. The book ends with an exposition of R. G. Collingwood’s anthropology of eating and dining, which completes the discussion with an analysis of the magical symbolism of those cultural activities.

Spencer K. Wertz is emeritus professor of philosophy at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth. He has taught wine appreciation classes and served many years on a Dallas-Fort Worth wine panel. For a decade he headed a barbecue team that traveled across Texas and New Mexico. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2016
Verlagsort	Fort Worth
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 226 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Allgemeines / Lexika / Tabellen
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Grundkochbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-87565-638-2 / 0875656382
ISBN-13	978-0-87565-638-0 / 9780875656380
Zustand	Neuware