The Aesthetics of Wine shows that discussing wine within the framework of aesthetics both benefits our understanding of wine as a phenomenon, while also challenging some of the basic assumptions of the tradition of aesthetics. * Analyzes the appreciation of wine as an aesthetic practice. * Tackles prejudices against bodily senses, showing how they distort traditional aesthetic theory * Represents the beginnings of a reformulation of general aesthetics
| ISBN: | 9781444337662 |
| Publication date: | 20th July 2012 |
| Author: | Douglas Burnham, Ole M Skilleas |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) an imprint of John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | New Directions in Aesthetics |
| Genres: |
Philosophy: aesthetics Wines |