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About the book
Here Scruton explains the connection between good wine and serious thought with a heady mix of humour and philosophy. The ancients had a solution to the alcohol problem, which was to wrap the drink in religious rituals, to treat it as the incarnation of a god, and to marginalize disruptive behaviour as the god's doing, not the worshipper's. Gradually, under the discipline of ritual, prayer and theology, wine was tamed from its orgiastic origins to become a solemn libation to the Olympians and th...Show more
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ISBN
9781441170675
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Published year
2010
Language
English
Original title
I Drink Therefore I am
Format
Paperback
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