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1 online resource (xx, 352 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
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Arts and traditions of the table : perspectives on culinary history
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Arts and traditions of the table.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-338) and index. |
| Summary |
"In Gastronomics, Michael Symons provides an innovative history of the intersection of food history, philosophy and economics. Modern economic thought, Symons argues, is driven by a money-centric focus that benefits the interests of the 'corporate individual'-entities without finite appetites, motivated by an endless quest for financial growth-to the detriment of actual, corporeal individuals. Symons understands this shift as a modern devaluation of community and loss of a way of life that values food sharing, enjoyment and satiety. Covering a wide variety of thinkers-Jean Brillat-Savarin and Epicurus, Enlightenment philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, economic theorists Jean-Baptiste Say and Stanley Jevons, and neoliberals-Symons reads and critiques both popular and lesser-understood intellectuals to shed light into the 'economics of appetite' and the opposing 'economics of greed.' He calls for individuals to reject the self-interest of money pleasure and, through renewed attention to communal values of family, meal-sharing, food activism, and the defense of liberalism, advocates a return to a community-based philosophy of 'table pleasure.'"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Prologue: Meals Before Money -- 1 It's Not "the Economy, Stupid," but More Than Five of Them -- 2 In Greed They Trust -- 3 Brillat- Savarin's Quest for Table- Pleasure -- 4 Epicurus and the Pleasure of the Stomach -- 5 Cavendish, Hobbes, Locke, and Liberal Political Economy -- 6 The City Sacks Versailles -- 7 Making the Market -- 8 The Dismal Science -- 9 Ludwig von Mises, Neoliberal Godfather -- 10 Rationalization and Corporate Purpose -- 11 The Creation of Homo Economicus -- 12 Free the Market! (It's Been Captured by Capitalism) -- 13 Value Families! (Economics Begins at Home) -- 14 Get Political! (Bring Back Banquets) -- Epilogue: "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry". |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Food habits -- Economic aspects.
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Food habits -- Economic aspects. |
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Food habits. |
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Food habits -- Social aspects.
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Food habits -- Social aspects. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History. |
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COOKING / History. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Symons, Michael, 1945- Meals matter. New York : Columbia University Press, [2020] 9780231196024 (DLC) 2019040719 |
| ISBN |
9780231551601 electronic book |
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0231551606 electronic book |
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9780231196024 hardcover |
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