Reinarz Key Publications by Angelica Spurrier

Alan Corbin, Le miasma et le jonquille, 1982

aspurrier1 — 2025-03-28 02:39:55 UTC

This is one of the publications referred to by Reinarz as a "'watershed moment for smell'" from the school of Annales. Reinarz credits this work with "breaking the olfactory silence" and discussing how urban waste was experience by those inhabiting post revolutionary France.[7]

Aristotle, 384-322 B.C.

aspurrier1 — 2025-03-28 02:45:54 UTC

Like his mentor Plato, Aristotle believed that the sense of vision was the most important and that of smell was not sufficient for understanding the world. He argued that smell, of the human senses, was lower on the hierarchy when understanding the world. Other authors would echo this sentiment. [1]

Sigmund Freud, 1930

aspurrier1 — 2025-03-28 02:54:34 UTC

Freud claimed that the sense of smell was diminished with modernization and was no longer served a purpose at it had at one point in our evolutionary history as hunter or gatherers. [6] He essentially dismissed the importance of smell as did others.

Patrick Suskind, Perfume: The Story of Murder, 1986

aspurrier1 — 2025-03-28 02:58:20 UTC

This was the other work referenced by Reinarz as a "'watershed moment for smell.'"[8] This best seller was released in the same year that Corbin's work was published in English, awakening historical insight into smells. [9]

Bartholomew, 1200's

aspurrier1 — 2025-03-28 03:15:37 UTC

He claimed that smell was an elevated sense and challenged the idea that it was a "lower" sense. He approached how smell was perceived with regards to the biological makeup of an individual. He also stated that smelling was "'knowing with your nose.'"[2]

Hendrik Zwaardemaker, System of Classifying Smells, 1895

aspurrier1 — 2025-03-28 03:20:44 UTC

Zwaardemaker's approach was mostly rooted in organic chemistry and classified smells based on the "chemical composition of objects." [4] He attempted to make connections between smells and what could not be visibly observed. [5]

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

aspurrier1 — 2025-03-28 03:27:40 UTC

Carrying on other critics of religion like Marx and Engels, Nietzsche argued that Christianity was suppressing the human senses and body. [3]