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Eating in Theory

Name: Eating in Theory
ISBN: 9781478012924

Annemarie Mol,

209 pages
English
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Eating in Theory

Annemarie Mol,

About this book

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.

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Year

2021

Print ISBN

9781478011415

9781478010371

eBook ISBN

9781478012924

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Agricultural Public Policy

Index

Social Sciences

74

Chapter 

Three

tain 

distance 

from 

the

object 

of

knowl-

edge. 

Instead, 

subject 

and

object 

inter-

fere 

with 

each 

other, 

change 

each 

other, 

intertwine. 

Rather 

than 

representing, 

other 

relational 

modalities 

are

at

stake. 

Learning 

to

be

aﬀected, 

aﬀecting. 

Taking 

pleasure, 

improving. 

Belonging, 

distin-

guishing. 

Caring, 

meddling. 

Satisfying, 

feeding. 

Chewing, 

appreciating. 

Listen-

ing, 

attending. 

In

this 

model, 

knowing

is

not

of

the

world, 

but

in

it.

It

is

altogether 

transformative.

to

be

disentangled; 

pleasure 

does 

not

have 

to

be

despised; 

it

may

be

enjoyed 

in

moderation. 

I

am

not

out

to

romanti-

cize 

life 

in

the

states 

from 

which 

classic 

Chinese 

texts 

emerged. 

But

their 

partic-

ularities 

help 

me— 

here, 

now—to 

escape 

from 

what 

was

presented 

as

self-evident 

in

the

intellectual 

traditions 

imposed 

on

me.

They 

offer 

me

a

‘Foucauldian 

mo-

ment.’ 

What 

effect, 

I

wonder, 

do

they 

have 

on

you, 

reader? 

How

do

you

appre-

ciate 

them? 

Cover
Contents
1. Empirical Philosophy
2. Being
3. Knowing
4. Doing
5. Relating
6. Intellectual Ingredients
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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