Eating in Theory
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Eating in Theory

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Eating in Theory

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.

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subject 
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the 
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is 
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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-
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help 
me— 
here, 
now—to 
escape 
from 
what 
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they 
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. 1. Empirical Philosophy
  4. 2. Being
  5. 3. Knowing
  6. 4. Doing
  7. 5. Relating
  8. 6. Intellectual Ingredients
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Notes
  11. Bibliography
  12. Index