Douglas Burnham & Ole M. Skilleas 
The Aesthetics of Wine [PDF ebook] 

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

Inhoudsopgave

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 and Expertise in Wine 140

6 The Wineworld 176

References 211

Index 220

Over de auteur

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, and literature; and is a regular contributor to Vinforum, a Norwegian wine magazine.

Douglas Burnham is Professor and Personal Chair of Philosophy at Staffordshire University. He has written extensivelyon the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche andphilosophy’s relation to the arts.