The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our NatureFree Press, 1994 - 248 pagini What is the full meaning of eating? What does it reveal about the soul? What is the meaning of human omnivorousness and the myriad customs that refine human eating, transforming animal feeding into human dining? This book examines the phenomena of eating, natural and cultural - from metabolism, appetite, and taste, to hospitality, table manners, and the ritual meal, and reveals how eating not only feeds the body but also nourishes the soul. |
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... hospitality , governing relations between hosts and guests . " " The problem of the stranger , whose solution is hospitality , is em- bedded in our very terminology . The outsider who enters a house- hold is , most obviously , a ...
... hospitality , governing relations between hosts and guests . " " The problem of the stranger , whose solution is hospitality , is em- bedded in our very terminology . The outsider who enters a house- hold is , most obviously , a ...
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... hospitality also recognizes simultaneously the importance of the love of one's own and the insufficiency of loving and being loved only by one's own . Hospitality springs from these common perceptions of our common elevated yet ...
... hospitality also recognizes simultaneously the importance of the love of one's own and the insufficiency of loving and being loved only by one's own . Hospitality springs from these common perceptions of our common elevated yet ...
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... Hospitality is at the same time an assertion against and a recognition of the given dog - eat - dog character of the world . Just as upright posture pays trib- ute to gravity as it rises against it - for in the absence of gravity , we ...
... Hospitality is at the same time an assertion against and a recognition of the given dog - eat - dog character of the world . Just as upright posture pays trib- ute to gravity as it rises against it - for in the absence of gravity , we ...
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