Taste as Experience: The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Food (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) - Nicola Perullo 2016

Taste as Experience: The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Food (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) - Nicola Perullo 2016

Preface to the American Edition

Foreword

Introduction

The Project

Difficulties and Resistances

Possibilities and Perspectives

First Mode of Access

Pleasure, Enjoyment, and Intelligence

Pleasure, Image, and Pathology

Criticism and the Look of Childhood

Pleasure as Nature in Culture

The Ethics of Pleasure: Good That Does “Good”

Second Mode of Access: Knowledge

Learning About Quality, Cultivating Taste

Tasting the World

Dressed Taste, Image, and Representation

Taste, Conflicts, and Culture

Curiosity, Expertise, Criticism (with Risks Included)

Taste and Sustainability: The Good That Grounds the Good

Taste and Diet

Third Mode of Access: Indifference

Essen Non Est Percipi

Contingent Indifference

Compulsive Indifference and Atmospheric Indifference

The Neutral

The Extension of Pleasure and the Limits of Gustatory Exclusivism

The Wisdom of Taste, the Taste of Wisdom

Taste and Pleasure, Experience, and Wisdom

Wise Expertise (Epicurus, Hume, and Dewey)

Regulation Without Rules

Flexibility: The Forest and the Coast

Conviviality: Discord and Gustatory Empathy

Take My Advice

Notes

References