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    "description": "<p><span>Our taste buds are a powerful way for humans to know beauty and experience beautiful things. In&nbsp;</span><em>Taste</em><span>, Italian philosopher&nbsp;Giorgio&nbsp;Agamben takes a close look at why the sense of taste has not historically been appreciated as a means to know and experience pleasure or why it has always been considered inferior to actual theoretical knowledge.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span>Taste, Agamben argues, is a category that has much to reveal to the contemporary world. Taking a step into the&nbsp;history&nbsp;of philosophy and reaching to&nbsp;the very origins of aesthetics, Agamben critically recovers the roots of one of Western culture&rsquo;s cardinal concepts.&nbsp;Agamben&nbsp;is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and with&nbsp;</span><em>Taste</em><span>&nbsp;he turns his critical eye to the realm of Western art and aesthetic practice.&nbsp;This volume will not only engage the author&rsquo;s devoted fans in philosophy, sociology, and literary criticism, but also his growing audience among art theorists and historians.</span></p>",
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