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1. Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption

   Eating the Avant-Garde

   By Michel Delville

   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...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge