La raison gourmande
by Michel Onfray
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Appetites for Thought offers up a delectable intellectual challenge: can we better understand the concepts of philosophers from their culinary choices? Guiding us around the philosopher's banquet table with erudition, wit, and irreverence, Michel Onfray offers surprising insights on foods ranging from fillet of cod to barley soup, from sausage to wine and coffee.Tracing the edible obsessions of philosophers from Diogenes to Sartre, Onfray considers how their ideas relate to their diets. show more Would Diogenes have been an opponent of civilization without his taste for raw octopus? Would Rousseau have show lessTags
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Michel Onfray is a French philosopher who established the free Universit Populaire in Caen, Normandy, where he teaches. He is the author of numerous books.
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