Nourishment : a philosophy of the political body / Corine Pelluchon ; translated by Justin E.H. Smith, and revised by François Cambien and Corine Pelluchon.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 4, 2018).

Translated from French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In this original and important book, Corine Pelluchon argues for nothing less than a new social contract that does justice to the biosphere, to all life, especially other animals, as well as human life, and to future generations. On the basis of a phenomenology of food and nourishment, she shows how freedom depends on the "love of life" and on sharing what nourishes with others. Pelluchon also takes up the practical challenge of reimagining democratic institutions to sustain this ethics of life. Anyone interested in questions of justice and environmental or food ethics should read this book.

Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; The corporeality of the subject; A phenomenology of nourishment; Revising the existential analytic: Ontology and politics; Part One: A phenomenology of nourishment; Chapter 1: Living from; Enjoyment; The gourmet cogito; Taste; The tea ceremony; The terrestrial condition, the localization, and birth; Chapter 2: Space, milieu, and other existents; The geographicity of being, the ecumene and mediance; Dwelling, building, cultivating; Empathy, communication with animals, and sharing of the common world

Zoopolis and justice towards animalsEating meat and the love of animals; Chapter 3: Eating disorders; Hunger as the starting point of ethics; A problem of justice, not of shortage: The capabilities approach; Food ethics and policy; The phenomenology of nourishment and agriculture; Anorexia, bulimia, and obesity: A painful orality; Part Two: To institute a common world; Chapter 4: A new social contract; Hobbes's artificialism, or the social contract as a response to violence; Locke's moderate liberalism: Autonomy without waste or expropriation

Rousseau's general will and the sense of obligationRawls's original position and the new social contract; The principles of justice as the sharing of nourishment; Chapter 5: Reconstructing democracy; Supplementing the representative system; The hypothesis of a third chamber, and the role of experts; From competitive democracy to deliberative democracy; The heterogeneity of the public sphere and participation; Culture and democracy: Intellectuals, media, and the schools; Chapter 6: Beyond national boundaries; In the shadow of the bomb

Globalization, sovereignty, and methodological cosmopolitanismCosmopolitical rights since Kant; Global civil society and cosmopolitical democracy; Imaginary, utopia, and the heritage of the Enlightenment; Conclusion; The opening of the possible and conviviality; Love of life; A radical phenomenology of sensing and a political constructivism; Notes; Introduction; Part One; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Part Two; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Conclusion; Index

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