Qui fait l'ange fait la bête: Odeurs et parfums en occident. Epigraphie Religion the strange proximity

the strange proximity

this book seeks to avoid the pitfall of a strictly chronological demonstration in order to convey the profound unity of his work

most of them previously unseen

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Giulio Guidorizzi

Qui fait l'ange fait la bête: Odeurs et parfums en occident. Epigraphie Religion the strange proximityIf our culture relegated the sense of smell as animal, it has constantly and unknowingly "spoken about the nose" through our likes and dislikes, our sensitive memory and our spiritual or religious experiences. This essay questions what was at stake in the age old contempt for olfaction and then questions its contemporary rehabilitation: we reactivate its role in medicine, we reveal its unconscious influence on our choices and feelings, we meditate on