Cooking, eating, thinking : transformative philosophies of food / edited by Deane W. Curtin and Lisa M. Heldke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Curtin, Deane W.

Heldke, Lisa M. (Lisa Maree), 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food.

Philosophy.

food.

philosophy.

Medical Subjects:

Food.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xvii, 386 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1992.

Summary:

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 matter, offering new readings of a number of texts--religious, philosophical, anthropological, culinary, poetic, and economic. Included are readings ranging from Plato's Phaedo and Verses of Sen-No-Rikyu to Peter Singer's "Becoming a Vegetarian" and Jean-François Revel's Culture and Cuisine. This reader will have particular appeal for philosophers working in social theory, feminist theory, and environmental ethics, and for those working on alternative approaches to such traditional subject areas as epistemology, aesthetics, and metaphysics.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection.

Other Format:

Online version: Cooking, eating, thinking.

ISBN:

0253315999

9780253315991

0253207045

9780253207043

OCLC:

24067697