Meals matter : a radical economics through gastronomy /

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Author / Creator:Symons, Michael, 1945- author.
Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Description:1 online resource : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Arts and traditions of the table : perspectives on culinary history
Arts and traditions of the table.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12407272
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ISBN:9780231551601
0231551606
9780231196024
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 12, 2020).
Summary:"In Gastronomics, Michael Symons provides an innovative history of the intersection of food history, philosophy and economics. Modern economic thought, Symons argues, is driven by a money-centric focus that benefits the interests of the 'corporate individual'-entities without finite appetites, motivated by an endless quest for financial growth-to the detriment of actual, corporeal individuals. Symons understands this shift as a modern devaluation of community and loss of a way of life that values food sharing, enjoyment and satiety. Covering a wide variety of thinkers-Jean Brillat-Savarin and Epicurus, Enlightenment philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, economic theorists Jean-Baptiste Say and Stanley Jevons, and neoliberals-Symons reads and critiques both popular and lesser-understood intellectuals to shed light into the 'economics of appetite' and the opposing 'economics of greed.' He calls for individuals to reject the self-interest of money pleasure and, through renewed attention to communal values of family, meal-sharing, food activism, and the defense of liberalism, advocates a return to a community-based philosophy of 'table pleasure.'"--
Other form:Print version: Symons, Michael, 1945- Meals matter. New York : Columbia University Press, [2020] 9780231196024