Food for thought / Louis Marin ; translated, with an afterword, by Mette Hjort.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marin, Louis, 1931-

Standardized Title:

Parole mangée et autres essais théologico-politiques. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Human body in literature.

Human figure in art.

Human body (Philosophy).

Power (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xxi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Johns Hopkins pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, ©1989.

Language Note:

Translation of: La parole mangée et autres essais théologico-politiques.

Contents:

1. The Body of the Divinity Captured by Signs

2. "Donkey-Skin," or Orality

3. Little Butterpot, or the Spell of the Voice

4. The Fabulous Animal

5. "The Reason of the Strongest Is Always the Best"

6. Utopic Rabelaisian Bodies

7. Theoretical Aperitif

8. Roast Blood Sausage, or the Crush of Performatives

9. Robert Sauce

10. Recipes of Power

11. Stew and Roast, or the Mastery of Discourse and the Illusions of Eros

12. Butcher's Meat and Game, or the Culinary Sign within Generalized Communication

13. The Portrait of the King's Glorious Body

14. The Pathetic Body and Its Doctor: The "Medical Diary of Louis XIV"

Afterword: Portrait of the Translator.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-268) and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection.

ISBN:

0801856132

9780801856136

OCLC:

37125545