The Aesthetics of Wine
Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Author(s): Douglas Burnham, Ole Martin Skilleås
Published Online: 25 JUN 2012 04:28AM EST
Print ISBN: 9781444337662
Online ISBN: 9781118323878
DOI: 10.1002/9781118323878
Series Editor(s): Dominic McIver Lopes, Berys Gaut
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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.
- 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