Cooking, eating, thinking : transformative philosophies of food /

Philosophy has often been criticized for privileging the abstract; this volume attempts to remedy that situation. Focusing on one of the most concrete of human concerns, food, the editors argue for the existence of a philosophy of food. The collection provides various approaches to the subject matte...

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Contributors: Curtin, Deane W., Heldke, Lisa M. 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1992.
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Table of Contents:
  • Food/body/person /
  • Deane W. Curtin
  • Matins (excerpt) /
  • Denise Levertov
  • From Phaedo /
  • Plato
  • Anorexia nervosa : psychopathology as the crystallization of culture /
  • Susan Bordo
  • confessions of an eater /
  • Kim Chernin
  • Nourishing the speaking subject : psychoanalytic approach to abominable food and women /
  • Kelly Oliver
  • Playfulness, "world"-travelling, and loving perception /
  • María Lugones
  • The Indian background ;
  • The Buddha's conception of personhood /
  • David J. Kalupahana
  • Food rules and the traditional sexual ideology /
  • Anna S. Meigs
  • How to stuff a pepper /
  • Nancy Willard
  • Recipes for values /
  • Deane W. Curtin
  • From Culture and cuisine /
  • Jean-François Revel
  • Fushuku-Hampō (Meal-time regulations) /
  • Dōgen
  • Verses of Sen-No-Rikyu /
  • Sen-No-Rikyu
  • From American fried : adventures of a happy eater /
  • Calvin Trillin
  • Becoming a vegetarian /
  • Peter Singer
  • The two full of butter /
  • from the
  • Rig Veda
  • Genesis 1-3 /
  • from the
  • Bible
  • Leviticus 11:1-47 /
  • from the
  • Bible
  • Foodmaking as a thoughtful practice /
  • Lisa M. Heldke
  • From Gorgias /
  • Plato
  • From Probabilistic metaphysics /
  • Patrick Suppes
  • The perfect pie /
  • Al Sicherman
  • Recipes for theory making /
  • Lisa M. Heldke
  • From The sexual politics of meat : a feminist vegetarian critical theory /
  • Carol J. Adams
  • From Buffalo bird woman's garden /
  • Buffalo Bird Woman
  • Tenzo Kyōkun (instruction for the Tenzo) /
  • Dōgen
  • From Zami : a new spelling of my name /
  • Audre Lorde
  • From Vibration cooking : or The travel notes of a geechee girl /
  • Verta Mae Smart-Grosvenor
  • Food politics, political food /
  • Lisa M. Heldke
  • Myths about hunger /
  • Anne Buchanan
  • Development, ecology and women /
  • Vandana Shiva
  • Are my hands clean /
  • Bernice Johnson Reagon
  • Women whose lives are food, men whose lives are money ;
  • American independence /
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • A modest proposal /
  • Jonathan Swift
  • Meeting the expectations of the land /
  • Wes Jackson
  • Revolutionary letter #42 ;
  • Revolutionary letter #55 /
  • Diane Di Prima
  • Thanksgiving dinner during pelting season (1957) /
  • Mary Moran
  • The pleasures of eating /
  • Wendell Berry.