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Alessandro De Cesaris | The Taste of Truth
approach to truth and salvation: in the Christian imaginary of the human-
divine relation, taste plays an essential role.
In this paper I would like to provide a minimal theoretical framework in
order to analyse the relevance of taste in the history of Western culture. In
particular, I will propose to analyse the question of taste from the point of
view of media theory, understanding taste as a medium, and many cultural
expressions as a metaphoric extension of this natural medium. In this way,
it will be possible to show why and how the question of taste goes well be-
yond the question of eating.
I will proceed as follows: in the first part of the paper I will provide a brief
methodological introduction, where I try to show why we need a mediolog-
ical approach to taste. After that, I will analyse taste under three different
aspects: physiology, aesthetics and symbology. The core aim of this opera-
tion is to offer the most complete possible answer to the question concern-
ing the role of taste in the whole of human experience.
Fig. 1: Alonso Cano, Lactation of St. Bernard (1650)
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
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Grazer theologische Perspektiven, Band 4:2
- Titel
- Limina
- Untertitel
- Grazer theologische Perspektiven
- Band
- 4:2
- Herausgeber
- Karl Franzens University Graz
- Datum
- 2021
- Sprache
- deutsch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 21.4 x 30.1 cm
- Seiten
- 214
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