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Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption
Eating the Avant-Garde
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
From Plato’s dismissal of food as a distraction from thought to Kant’s relegation of the palate to the bottom of the hierarchy of the senses, the sense of taste has consistently been devalued by Western aesthetics. Kant is often invoked as evidence that philosophers consider taste as an inferior...
To Be Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
