- 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
The Aesthetics of Wine
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Author(s)Douglas Burnham, Ole M. Skilleas
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN1444337661
ISBN-139781444337662
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Sales Rank2,965,827
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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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.