Appetites for Thought: Philosophers and Food

by Michel Onfray

Appetites for Thought offers up a delectable intellectual challenge: can we better understand the concepts of philosophers from their culinary choices? Guiding us around the philosopher's banquet table with erudition, wit, and irreverence, Michel Onfray offers surprising insights on foods ranging from fillet of cod to barley soup, from sausage to wine and coffee.

Tracing the edible obsessions of philosophers from Diogenes to Sartre,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780234457
• ISBN13: 9781780234458
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.6" x 7.8"