Eating in theory
"Eating in Theory draws on snapshots of eating practices to shift a range of fundamental intellectual reflexes. The terms that shape current social science and humanities theorizing are marked by a hierarchical version of "the human" in which thinking is celebrated and eating is demoted to a mundane necessity. However much sense this may have made in the past, it works poorly in a time of ecological crisis. Drawing on ethnographic research into eating practices in the Netherlands, Eating in The…
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- Full title :Eating in theory / Annemarie Mol.
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"Eating in Theory draws on snapshots of eating practices to shift a range of fundamental intellectual reflexes. The terms that shape current social science and humanities theorizing are marked by a hierarchical version of "the human" in which thinking is celebrated and eating is demoted to a mundane necessity. However much sense this may have made in the past, it works poorly in a time of ecological crisis. Drawing on ethnographic research into eating practices in the Netherlands, Eating in Theory re-thinks the core theory terms being, knowing, doing and relating. These are no longer external, distant, centered and companionable, but entangled, transformative, spread out and suspended between fostering and devouring"--
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- Publication Date:©2021
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Duke University Press
- Place of Publication:Durham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2021
The Physical Object
- Description:199 pages ; : 25 cm.
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- ISBN:9781478010371, 1478010371, 9781478011415, 1478011416
- oclc:on1163955966
- LC Classification:TX357
- Dewey Decimal:394.12
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