Appetites for thought : philosophers and food /

Appetites for thought : philosophers and food /

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Author / Creator:	Onfray, Michel, 1959-
Uniform title:	Ventre des philosophes. English
Imprint:	London : Reaktion Books Ltd, [2015]. ©2015
Description:	136 pages ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Mind and body. Philosophers -- Nutrition. Food. Thought and thinking. Diet. Food. Diet. Mind and body. Thought and thinking.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10136711

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Varying Form of Title:	Philosophers and food
Other authors / contributors:	Muecke, Stephen, translator. Barry, Donald, translator.
ISBN:	9781780234458 1780234457
Notes:	"First published as La Ventre des philosophes: Critique de la raison diététique by Michel Onfray, ©Editions Grasset et Fasquelles, 1989"--Title page verso. Includes bibliography (pages 130-136).
Summary:	"[O]ffers up a delectable intellectual challenge: can we better understand the concepts of philosophers from their culinary choices? Guiding us around the philosopher's banquet table with erudition, wit, and irreverence, Michel Onfray offers surprising insights on foods ranging from fillet of cod to barley soup, from sausage to wine and coffee. Tracing the edible obsessions of philosophers from Diogenes to Sartre, Onfray considers how their ideas relate to their diets. Would Diogenes have been an opponent of civilization without his taste for raw octopus? Would Rousseau have been such a proponent of frugality if his daily menu had included something more than dairy products? Onfray offers a perfectly Kantian critique of the nose and palate, since "the idea obtained from them is more a representation of enjoyment than cognition of the external object." He exposes Nietzsche's grumpiness--really, Nietzsche grumpy?--about bad cooks and the retardation of human evolution, and he explores Sartre's surrealist repulsion by shellfish because they are 'food buried in an object, and you have to pry them out'"--

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