Comida, hambre y fenomenología: En torno a la posibilidad de una fenomenología de la comida.

Abstract

In the last decades, we have seen the arise of a

new niche of research, namely, one which

studies philosophically the food and all that it

implies. Nowadays, in the anglo-saxon

countries the researches on food focus only in

the sociological and aesthetics dimensions of

it. However, they neglect the question about

the essence of the food itself. For this, we can

see that this niche have a practical philosophy

but not yet a theoretical philosophy of food.

This paper aims to grasp on the possibility of

this philosophy, which must ask about the

essential predicates of the food in a

phenomenological point of view. The

phenomenology can describe the essence of the

food as it is given in first person, without

reduce it to problems linked with hunger or

naturalize it linking it to nutrition problems.