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Title
Appetites for thought
Other Titles (e.g. Variant)
Philosophers and food
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Onfray, Michel, 1959- (Author)
Barry, Donald (Translator)
Muecke, Stephen, 1951- (Translator)
Subject
Mind and body (LCSH)
Philosophers--Nutrition (LCSH)
Food (LCSH)
Thought and thinking (LCSH)
Diet (LCSH)
Language
English
English
French original
Classification
LCC: B105.M53 V4613 2015 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 641.3001 full (Source: 23)
Supplementary Content
bibliography
Content
text
Note
Includes translation
Summary
"[O]ffers up a delectable intellectual challenge: can we better understand the concepts of philosophers if we look at their culinary choices? Guiding us around the philosopher's banquet table with erudition, wit, and irreverence, Michel Onfray offers surprising insights on foods ranging from fillet of cod to barley soup, from sausage to wine and coffee. Tracing the edible obsessions of philosophers from Diogenes to Sartre, Onfray considers how their ideas relate to their diets. Would Diogenes have been an opponent of civilization without his taste for raw octopus? Would Rousseau have been such a proponent of frugality if his daily menu had included something more than dairy products? Nietzsche was grumpy about bad cooks and the retardation of human evolution, and Sartre was repelled by shellfish because they are 'food buried in an object, and you have to pry them out'"--Back cover.
Table Of Contents
Introduction: the banquet of the omnivores
Diogenes; or, the taste of octopus
Rousseau; or, the Milky Way
Kant; or, ethical alcoholism
Fourier; or, the pivotal little pie
Nietzsche; or, the sausages of the anti-Christ
Marinetti; or, the excited pig
Sartre; or, the revenge of the crustaceans
Conclusion: the gay science of eating.
Authorized Access Point
Onfray, Michel, 1959- Appetites for thought
Admin Metadata
Generation Process: DLC marc2bibframe2 v2.5.0
Status: changed
Encoding Level: minimal
Identified By: bf:Local, 18686256
Change Date: 2022-11-10T06:40:28
Creation Date: 2014-10-02
Description Language: English
Description Modifier: United States, Library of Congress
Description Authentication: LC Copy Cataloging
Assigner: IAQ