The Aesthetics of Wine

Author:   Douglas Burnham ,  Ole M. Skilleas
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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9781444337662


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   20 July 2012
Format:   Hardback
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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

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Author:   Douglas Burnham ,  Ole M. Skilleas
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.456kg
ISBN:  

9781444337662


ISBN 10:   1444337661
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   20 July 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. ( Choice , 1 March 2013)


Despite the quibbles registered above, cheers to the authors for a fascinating and stimulating book! ( The Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism , 1 November 2013) ...rarely does one locate as informative and ingenious analysis of [wine's] aesthetic qualities as this recent volume by Burnham and Skilleas. ...the authors do every student of philosophical aesthetics a welcome service by outfitting their comprehensive argument with one of the clearest expositions of applied aesthetics and its critical use of cultivated practices, sensory competencies, and intersubjective norms for grounding judgements of taste that this reviewer as yet encountered. ( Choice , 1 March 2013) Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. ( Choice , 1 March 2013) Fascinating and extremely well informed --Jancis Robinson


Author Information

Ole Martin Skilleås is Professor of Philosophy at the 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 extensively on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche and philosophy's relation to the arts.

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