Les Nourritures de Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Cuisine, gout et appetit

by Olivier Assouly

Book cover: Les Nourritures de Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Extent: 444 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Philosophy

Series: Les Anciens et les Modernes - Etudes de philosophie

Series volume number: 26

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(July 2016)

ISBN: 9782406057512

Price: $55.00

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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 Emile seems to stand as a central theme in constant tension with both the prerogatives of taste and the political order.

  • By (author) Olivier Assouly