Estetica ed etica del “cibo-senza cibo”
The excess of food – so typical to our Western civilization – has paradoxically brought about the fact that we concentrate on managing a surplus rather than a deficit. This shift both from our daily natural necessity to feed ourselves and from our natural need has generated a further separation from...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Rosenberg & Sellier
2017-11-01
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| Series: | Quaderni di Sociologia |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/qds/1705 |
| Summary: | The excess of food – so typical to our Western civilization – has paradoxically brought about the fact that we concentrate on managing a surplus rather than a deficit. This shift both from our daily natural necessity to feed ourselves and from our natural need has generated a further separation from nature itself. This process, thrusting its roots in the cultural history of rational modern man, is connected with a new way of seeing the role, the figure, and the social image of modern man himself. With its originality, today’s food-related collective thought can adequately indicate these major developments. As a matter of fact, the presentation of the “void” and of the “artificial” represents a binding criterion to adjust to in offering some courses/dishes which are the expression of social belonging and status. |
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| ISSN: | 0033-4952 2421-5848 |