Making Sense of Taste

by Korsmeyer, Carolyn

• ISBN13: 9780801488139
• ISBN10: 0801488133
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

Taste, perhaps the most intimate of the five senses, has traditionally been considered beneath the concern of philosophy, too bound to the body, too personal and idiosyncratic. Yet, in addition to providing physical pleasure, eating and drinking bear symbolic and aesthetic value in human experience, and they continually inspire writers and artists. Carolyn Korsmeyer explains how taste came to occupy so low a place in the hierarchy of senses and why it is deserving of greater philosophical respect and attention. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Carolyn Korsmeyer is Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She is the author or editor of several books in aesthetics and philosophy of art, feminist philosophy, and emotion theory

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(10)
The Hierarchy of the Senses	11	(27)
Philosophies of Taste: Aesthetic and Nonaesthetic Senses	38	(30)
The Science of Taste	68	(35)
The Meaning of Taste and the Taste of Meaning	103	(43)
The Visual Appetite: Representing Taste and Food	146	(39)
Narratives of Eating	185	(40)
Index	225