Taste

by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

Taste usually occupies the bottom of the sensorial hierarchy, as the quintessentially hedonistic sense, too close to the animal, the elemental and the corporeal, and for this reason disciplined and moralised. At the same time, taste is indissolubly tied to knowledge. To taste is to discriminate, emit judgement, enter an unstable domain of synaesthetic normativity where the certainty of metaphysical categories begins to crumble. This second title in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911534327
• ISBN13: 9781911534327
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: University of Westminster Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.3" x 7.0"