Eating in theory

by Mol, Annemarie

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Title Statements

Full title :Eating in theory / Annemarie Mol.

Summary

Empirical Philosophy -- Being -- Knowing -- Doing -- Relating -- Intellectual Ingredients.

"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"

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:Durham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2021

Notes

Enthält Literaturangaben und Index.

The Physical Object

Description:199 Seiten

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781478010371, 1478010371, 9781478011415, 1478011416, 9781478012924, 1478012927
oclc:on1244547170
LC Classification:TX357
Dewey Decimal:394.1/2

Subjects

Aliments -- Aspect de l'environnement Eating (Philosophy) Ess- und Trinksitte Feldforschung Food -- Environmental aspects Food habits Food habits -- Netherlands Food habits -- Psychological aspects Habitudes alimentaires -- Aspect psycho… Habitudes alimentaires -- Pays-Bas Mensch Nahrungsaufnahme Netherlands Nourriture Philosophie