Format:
199 Seiten.
ISBN:
978-1-4780-1037-1
,
978-1-4780-1141-5
Series Statement:
Experimental futures
Content:
Empirical Philosophy -- Being -- Knowing -- Doing -- Relating -- Intellectual Ingredients
Content:
"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"--
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-4780-1292-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Mensch
;
Nahrungsaufnahme
;
Ess- und Trinksitte
;
Philosophie
;
Feldforschung
Author information:
Mol, Annemarie, 1958-,
