Introduction à la discussion par Jean Goizauskas
Quatrième de couverture : As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory Annemarie Mol takes inspiration from these transformative entanglements to rethink what it is to be human. Drawing on fieldwork at food conferences, research labs, health care facilities, restaurants, and her own kitchen table, Mol reassesses the work of authors such as Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hans Jonas, and Emmanuel Levinas. They celebrated the allegedly unique capability of humans to rise above their immediate bodily needs. Mol, by contrast, appreciates that as humans we share our fleshy substance with other living beings, whom we cultivate, cut into pieces, transport, prepare, and incorporate—and to whom we leave our excesses. This has far-reaching philosophical consequences. Taking human eating seriously suggests a reappraisal of being as transformative, knowing as entangling, doing as dispersed, and relating as a matter of inescapable dependence.
Annemarie Mol, Eating in Theory, Duke University Press, 2021.
Le séminaire est organisé collectivement par les doctorants du CSI. Il est ouvert au public sur inscription.
Programme du séminaire 2022-2023
Date : Mardi 29 novembre 2022, de 11h à 13h.
Lieu : Salle Saint Jacques et en visioconference pour le public extérieur.
Inscription : merci de remplir ce formulaire (le lien de connexion pour la visoconférence sera envoyé par email aux personnes inscrites).
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Photo source : laap, Les Possédés et leurs mondes, Annemarie Mol. Film 1. « From Natural Sciences to Philosophy and Anthropology », Summer 2021.
