The Aesthetics of Wine shows that discussing wine within theframework of aesthetics both benefits our understanding of wine asa phenomenon, while also challenging some of the basic assumptionsof the tradition of aesthetics.
* Analyzes the appreciation of wine as an aestheticpractice.
* Tackles prejudices against bodily senses, showing how theydistort traditional aesthetic theory
* Represents the beginnings of a reformulation of generalaesthetics
قائمة المحتويات
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction 1
1 Basic Concepts 8
2 Wine as a Vague and Rich Object 35
3 Wine and Cognition 64
4 Aesthetic Attributes in Wine 97
5 Taste a...
عن المؤلف
Ole Martin Skilleås is Professor of Philosophy atthe University of Bergen. He is the author of Philosophy and Literature (2001); several articles on philosophy, aesthetics...