Les Nourritures de Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Cuisine, goût et appétit

Book cover: Les Nourritures de Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Extent: 444 pages

Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Series: Les Anciens et les Modernes - Etudes de philosophie

Language: French

Hardback (Published)

(July 2016)

ISBN: 9782406057529

5.94 x 8.66 inches

Price: $108.00

Scorning gastronomic vanities, Jean-Jacques Rousseau nevertheless attributes an indispensable place to the sense of taste in the education of a man—even though the notion of appetite in Émile seems to stand as a central theme in constant tension with both the prerogatives of taste and the political order.


Scorning gastronomic vanities, Jean-Jacques Rousseau nevertheless attributes an indispensable place to the sense of taste in the education of a man—even though the notion of appetite in Émile seems to stand as a central theme in constant tension with both the prerogatives of taste and the political order.