The Aesthetics of Wine (E-Book) von Douglas Burnham

Acknowledgments viii

Introduction 1

1 Basic Concepts 8

2 Wine as a Vague and Rich Object 35

3 Wine and Cognition 64

4 Aesthetic Attributes in Wine 97

5 Taste and Expertise in Wine 140

6 The Wineworld 176

References 211

Index 220

• 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

Ole Martin Skilleåsis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergen. He is the author ofPhilosophy and Literature(2001); several articles on philosophy, aesthetics, and literature; and is a regular contributor toVinforum, a Norwegian wine magazine.

Douglas Burnhamis Professor and Personal Chair of Philosophy at Staffordshire University. He has written extensively on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche and philosophy's relation to the arts.