Eating in theory:

As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory Annemarie Mol takes inspiration from these transformative entanglements to rethink what it is to be human. Drawing on fieldwork at food c...

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Beteilige Person: Mol, Annemarie 1958- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Durham ; London Duke University Press 2021
Schriftenreihe:Experimental futures: technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478012924
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478012924
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012924?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478012924?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012924
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478012924
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012924
Zusammenfassung:As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory Annemarie Mol takes inspiration from these transformative entanglements to rethink what it is to be human. Drawing on fieldwork at food conferences, research labs, health care facilities, restaurants, and her own kitchen table, Mol reassesses the work of authors such as Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hans Jonas, and Emmanuel Levinas. They celebrated the allegedly unique capability of humans to rise above their immediate bodily needs. Mol, by contrast, appreciates that as humans we share our fleshy substance with other living beings, whom we cultivate, cut into pieces, transport, prepare, and incorporate-and to whom we leave our excesses. This has far-reaching philosophical consequences. Taking human eating seriously suggests a reappraisal of being as transformative, knowing as entangling, doing as dispersed, and relating as a matter of inescapable dependence
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (199 Seiten)
ISBN:1478012927
9781478012924
DOI:10.1515/9781478012924