What's That Smell?
A Philosophy of the Olfactory
$48.65
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
9 April 2024
Summary
How our sense of smell engages with philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political economy—and how it can help enrich our understanding of the nature of truth, language, economy, and sexuality.
Why is it that, in Indo-European languages at least, we have no language to describe smells, leaving us (and famously Juliet) no choice but to call the scent of a rose simply “sweet”? In What’s That Smell?, a groundbreaking exploration of the intersection between philosophy, psychoanalysis,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262547567 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262547562 |
| Author: | Simon Hajdini |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 9 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Short Circuits |
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About The Author
Simon Hajdini
Simon Hajdini is Senior Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. He is the author of two books in Slovene and several research articles in contemporary philosophy, social and political theory, German idealism, and psychoanalysis.
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