The practice of focusing special attention on an object or performance because of the way its form expresses meaning seems to be present in all
Tag: aesthetics of wine
Wine Appreciation, Irony, and a Game of Striving
Originally posted at Three Quarks Daily. For many wine lovers, understanding wine is hard work. We study maps of wine regions and their climates, learn
Why Do We Argue About Wine?
Why do we argue about anything? The obvious answer is we want to influence someone to change their mind. That’s a good explanation in some
Wine and Imagination in Perullo’s Epistenology: Wine as Experience
You know, if you’ve poked around this blog for awhile, that I think wine is more than a collection of aromas and textures. Wine stimulates
Why Great Wines are Works of Art
Wine lovers are amazed by and wholly absorbed in the creative collaboration of culture and nature. Almost all cultures throughout human history have treated certain
Philosophy has Been Wrong About Wine for 2500 Years
Throughout most of philosophy’s history, wine has been treated as an insignificant diversion, incapable of being beautiful and incapable of producing genuine aesthetic pleasure. The
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 