Hungry Soul Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature

Name: Hungry Soul Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature
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ISBN: 9780029170731

ISBN-10: 0029170737

ISBN-13: 9780029170731

Edition: 1994

Authors: Leon R. Kass

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The Hungry Soul is a fascinating exploration of the natural and cultural act of eating. Kass brilliantly reveals how the various aspects of this phenomenon, and the customs, rituals, and taboos surrounding it, relate to universal and profound truths about the human animal and its deepest yearnings."Kass is a distinguished and graceful writer. . . . It is astonishing to discover how different is our world from that of the animals, even in that which most evidently betrays that we too are animals-our need and desire for food."-Roger Scruton, Times Literary Supplement"Yum."-Miss Manners

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 5/31/1994
Binding: Children's Board Books
Pages: 224
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Leon R. Kass is Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago.



List of Illustrations


Credits


Foreword to the Paperback Edition


Preface


Introduction: "Good for Food . . . to Make One Wise"


Food and Nourishing: The Primacy of Form


The Human Form:Omnivoros us Erectus


Host and Cannibal: From Fressen to Essen


Enhancing Uprightness: Civilized Eating


Freedom, Friendship, and Philosophy: From Eating to Dining


Sanctified Eating: A Memorial of Creation


Conclusion: The Hungry Soul and the Perfecting of Our Nature


Notes


Index