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Thoughts around a glass of Sauternes

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And if the philosophy of knowledge had not begun? (p.219)M. Serres (1985) tastes a glass of Chateau d'Yquem, and opens up to a dimension of knowledge other than the one of clear and distinct ideas, other than the one given by the sight and the hearing. By tasting, instead of integrating this experience into one word, he deploys it into thousands of facets and clues; instead of analysing it, he merges it into a (con)fusion; instead of (re)presenting it, he places it back in all the depth of memory.After being born to the world thanks to the tongue that speaks (tongue and language are the same word in French), he explains being born again thanks to the tongue that tastes (together with the mouth that smells and the lips that love). Upstream the very experience of the world, comes first an experience of taste, awakening and forming the aesthesia, capable of understanding the transformation (analogous to the cooking, thus opening to knowledge and culture).What is this knowledge, other than representation, analysis and synthesis? What does it teaches us about our way of (not) knowing? And what if the taste, instead of being this second-order sense for knowing, was on the contrary a model for com-prehending the complexity, the mixed, the fusion of differences, the very long journeys that have shaped the given, the memories insisting in the contemporary? Would knowing be as sweet and enjoyable that drinking a glass of Sauternes?

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hal-00441840 , version 1 (17-12-2009)

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Jean-Luc Moriceau. Thoughts around a glass of Sauternes. Taste Conference, Nov 2008, Southend On See, United Kingdom. ⟨hal-00441840⟩
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