Eating in Theory by Mol, Annemarie

Eating in Theory (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781478011415)

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Eating in Theory by Mol, Annemarie

Eating in Theory

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Eating in Theory by Mol, Annemarie

Eating in Theory

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Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Annemarie Mol
ISBN-10: 1478011416
ISBN-13: 9781478011415
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/23/2021
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.13w x 0.44d

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By Annemarie Mol
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Annemarie Mol is Professor of Anthropology of the Body at the University of Amsterdam and the author of The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice, also published by Duke University Press, and The Logic of Care: Health and the Problem of Patient Choice.

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