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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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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

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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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