The Atkins diet has transformed the lives of millions of people, revolutionizing grocery store shelves, restaurant menus, and dinner-table conversations. But there are questions beyond its efficacy and longevity. Is the Atkins diet a new wrinkle in capitalist exploitation or a twisted expression of negative body images? Is it a symbol of super-masculinity? Has the Atkins diet really been around for centuries under other names? Can it increase intelligence, or cause global warming and melt the polar ice caps? How does Atkins fit into Kant’s conception of the moral life, or Rousseau’s vision of a kinder, gentler human society? The Atkins Diet and Philosophy wittily explores these and other pressing questions in sixteen entertaining essays. Following the same fun, readable approach as earlier volumes in this series, this book uses philosophy to put the Atkins diet under the microscope, and uses the Atkins diet to teach vital philosophical lessons for life.
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"...any interested in Atkins and philosophy will find here an intriguing ability to link philosophical thinking to popular culture." -- Midwest Book Review
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This review is from: The Atkins Diet and Philosophy: Chewing the Fat with Kant and Nietzsche (Popular Culture and Philosophy) (Paperback)
pretty good read (a few essays were a little boring but the majority are well done). if you're a fan of the Popular Culture and Philosophy series and you're interested in dieting, nutrition, food etc. you should like this. Other's I have read are:Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing The Sopranos and Philosophy: I Kill Therefore I Am (Popular Culture and Philosophy) Led Zeppelin and Philosophy: All Will Be Revealed (Popular Culture and Philosophy) Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy: How to Philosophize with a Pair of Pliers and a Blowtorch The Rolling Stones and Philosophy: It's Just a Thought Away (Popular Culture and Philosophy)
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It's more philosophical observation than diet plan,
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This review is from: The Atkins Diet and Philosophy: Chewing the Fat with Kant and Nietzsche (Popular Culture and Philosophy) (Paperback)
Sixteen essays by contributors who add a dose of philosophical reflection into the Atkins diet controversy will appeal to both pro and con diet readers. They come from practitioners of the diet, those not on it, and those who want little to do with it. It's more philosophical observation than diet plan - but any interested in Atkins and philosophy alike will find here an intriguing ability to link philosophical thinking to modern culture.
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Dr. Atkins has trimmed our waistlines, changed our way of looking at the familiar processes of the human body, and certainly taken our money. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, United States, South Beach, New Diet Revolution, Protein Power, David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bill Irwin, Atkins Nutritionals, Glucose Revolution, Jacques Lacan, Marianna Torgovnick, Immanuel Kant, Open Court, Weight Watchers, Audre Lorde, Barry Sears, Department of Agriculture, Fat Liberationists, Indigenous Australians, John Dewey, Karl Marx, Lacanian Approach, Tyranny of the Carbohydrate, World War New!
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Dr. Atkins has trimmed our waistlines, changed our way of looking at the familiar processes of the human body, and certainly taken our money. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dieting paradigm, primitivist philosophy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, South Beach, New Diet Revolution, Protein Power, David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bill Irwin, Atkins Nutritionals, Glucose Revolution, Jacques Lacan, Marianna Torgovnick, Immanuel Kant, Open Court, Weight Watchers, Audre Lorde, Barry Sears, Department of Agriculture, Fat Liberationists, Indigenous Australians, John Dewey, Karl Marx, Lacanian Approach, Tyranny of the Carbohydrate, World War New!
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- Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is; Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche on 5 pages
- Glucose Revolution by Jennie B Miller on page 52, page 53, and page 54
- Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau on page 44, page 47, and page 69
- The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss by Arthur Agatston on page 190, and page 231
- The Social Contract (Penguin Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau on page 44, and page 69
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- Harley-Davidson and Philosophy: Full-Throttle Aristotle (Popular Culture and Philosophy) by Bernard E. Rollin in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless (Popular Culture and Philosophy) by Richard Greene in Front Matter
- The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy: The Lion, the Witch, and the Worldview (Popular Culture and Philosophy) by Gregory Bassham in Front Matter
- More Matrix and Philosophy: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded (Popular Culture and Philosophy) by William Irwin in Front Matter
- Superheroes and Philosophy: Truth, Justice, and the Socratic Way (Popular Culture and Philosophy) by Tom Morris in Front Matter
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