Title in English: Eating and Being. Lessons from Gastrosophy
The ninth volume in the Munice series explores philosophical reflections on food, eating, and nourishment. It demonstrates that food can be understood as a social, culturally constitutive, and at the same time existential phenomenon. The individual gastrosophical reflections focus on philosophical justifications of dietetics as well as symbolic and anthropological interpretations of eating. Ethical aspects of consumption, considerations of table fellowship and communal dining, and reflections on the many dimensions of this everyday phenomenon in artistic expression are also addressed. The individual chapters show why and how food has been, and continues to be, a fully legitimate subject of philosophical inquiry, and why eating and being are inseparably linked.
