David B. Goldstein argues for a new understanding of Renaissance England from the perspective of communal eating. Rather than focus on traditional models of interiority, choice and consumption, Goldstein demonstrates that eating offered a central paradigm for the ethics of community formation. The book examines how sharing food helps build, demarcate and destroy relationships – between eater and eaten, between self and other, and among different groups. Tracing these eating relations from 1547 to 1680 – through Shakespeare, Milton, religious writers and recipe book authors – Goldstein shows that to think about eating was to engage in complex reflections about the body’s role in society. In the process, he radically rethinks the communal importance of the Protestant Eucharist. Combining historicist literary analysis with insights from social science and philosophy, the book’s arguments reverberate well beyond the Renaissance. Ultimately, Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare’s England forces us to rethink our own relationship to food.
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Notre attitude à l’égard des animaux est-elle correcte d’un point de vue éthique ? Faut-il étendre aux “bêtes sauvages’” la protection juridique (relative) que nous accordons aux animaux de compagnie ? L’évaluation morale de la souffrance des êtres vivants soulève de vraies questions philosophiques. Aux Etats-Unis et en Allemagne, comme … Lire plus
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L’éthique à table : Pourquoi nos choix alimentaires importent
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A mi-chemin entre l’enquête sociologique et la philosophie éthique, ce livre pose un regard critique sur la nourriture que nous consommons et ses méthodes de production et se propose de donner à chacun les moyens de faire le meilleur choix alimentaire. En partant de la liste de courses de trois … Lire plus