Café Noir

In Fritz Allhoff, Scott F. Parker & Michael W. Austin, Coffee. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 100–112 (2011-03-04)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Coffee or Tea? The American Coffeehouse Individual Choice, Social Meaning.

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Café Noir ‐ anxiety, existence and the coffeehouse   coffee, drink that best expresses ‐ our peculiar (post‐)modern predicament   tea consumption ‐ matter of elaborate and precise rituals ‐ selection, preparation, serving, pouring, and drinking of tea   cultural representation of coffee ‐ déclassé, tea time connoting luxury of reserved time, but coffee breaks, mere interruptions of work   coffee drinking, a darker side ‐ in a host's question upon offering a cup, “How do you take it?”   realism in coffee drinking ‐ kind that acknowledges the hard‐edged limitations of life   American Coffeehouse, in the cultural imagination ‐ a place of artistic and intellectual vibrancy   The American diner, authentic locale of coffee drinking ‐ not in the cultural imagination, of the European coffeehouse   ungrounded choice, working well for some ‐ undecided between the mocha‐cappuccino and the caramel latte   Nietzsche's genius, importance of individual choice ‐ laying bare falseness of many limitations impose

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9781444393385   9781444337129

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edition Sadler, Brook J. (2011) "Café noir : anxiety, existence, and the coffeehouse". In Allhoff, Fritz, Parker, Scott F., Austin, Michael W., Coffee - Philosophy for Everyone: Grounds for Debate, pp. : Wiley-Blackwell (2011)

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