Cooking, Eating, Thinking
Curtin, Deane W. / Heldke, Lisa M.
Philosophy has often been criticized for privileging the abstract, thisvolume attempts to remedy that situation. Focusing on one of the most concrete ofhuman concerns, food, the editors argue for the existence of a philosophy of food.The collection provides various approaches to the subject matter, offering newreadings of a number of texts -- religious, philosophical, anthropological, culinary, poetic, and economic. Included are readings rangi...