Parasitic Personhood and the Ontology of Eating

It explores "parasitic personhood," an alternative to atomistic individualism that acknowledges the biological individual as a network of persistent biological relationships (a "holobiont"). It's of interest to students and scholars of food and eating, as well as philosophers considering the ontological significance of food and eating.

Lisa Heldke is Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College, USA. She is the author, co-author, or co-editor of several works on the philosophy of food, including Exotic Appetites: Ruminations of a Food Adventurer (Routledge, 2003); Philosophers at Table: On Food and Being Human; Cooking, Eating, Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food; and The Encyclopedia of Food and Agriculture Ethics.