Somaesthetics and Food

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-74456-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Studies in Somaesthetics

This volume focuses on the relationship between food, aesthetics, philosophy, and somaesthetics, exploring how food is much more than a biological necessity. It invites readers to rethink food as a central element of human life—one that intertwines culture, art, ethics, and aesthetics—and encourages a more mindful, sustainable engagement with it. Covering a range of topics—from the philosophy of taste to mindful eating, sustainability, lab-grown meat, obesity, and environmental responsibility—the essays in this volume demonstrate and expand the richness and potential of food philosophy through the lens of somaesthetics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Koczanowicz, Dorota

Perullo, Nicola

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

13 Introduction Nicola Perullo and Dorota Koczanowicz

14 Food Consciousness: Its Importance to Human Life and the Three Main Obstacles to Its Development Nicola Perullo

15 Everyday Foodscape: a Site for Practicing Care Yuriko Saito

16 Embodying Responsibility: Somaesthetics, Art, and Eating for the Climate Dorota Koczanowicz

17 Unpacking Disembodied Meat: Technology-Mediated Human Predation Malgorzata Dancewicz-Pawlik

18 Mindful Experience Design: a Somaesthetic Perspective on Critical Food Design Anna Kwapisz

19 The Licking Eye and the Seeing Tongue: Haptic Taste in Polish Contemporary Art Marta Smolinska

20 Sounds of Eating: the Art of Food in David Rodríguez Vélez’s Artistic Sound Projects Renata Tanczuk

21 Food Flavors in Italo Calvino: towards an Olfactory Somaesthetics Elena Mancioppi

22 Embodiment, Eating, Environment: a Somaesthetic Approach to Obesity Maddalena Borsato

23 Ecological Somaesthetics: beyond Self-Enhancement Raymond Boisvert

24 LITTLEIMPORTANCE Anna Królikiewicz

Über Autor(innen)

Dorota Koczanowicz is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Wroclaw (Poland). She has published widely on aesthetics, gender, contemporary culture, art, and food, including The Aesthetics of Taste: Eating in the Realm of Art (Brill, 2023).

Nicola Perullo is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo (Italy). He has published extensively on modern and contemporary philosophy and aesthetics. His works translated into English include Taste as Experience (Columbia University Press, 2016), Epistenology: Wine as Experience (Columbia University Press, 2020), and Aesthetics without Objects and Subjects (Bloomsbury, 2025).