Description
| Product ID: | 9781478010371 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Experimental Futures |
| Title: | Eating in Theory |
| Authors: | Author: Annemarie Mol |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Cultural studies: food and society, Food & society, Feminism and feminist theory, Social and cultural anthropology, Feminism & feminist theory, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography |
| Description: | Annemarie Mol interferes with proud celebrations of the human ability to think and takes inspiration from eating in order to shift a wide range of intellectual reflexes. This tactic transforms the meaning of such crucial theory terms as being, knowing, doing and relating. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Duke University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Duke University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-04-23 |
