1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990005643070403321

Autore

Chagall, Marc <1887-1985>

Titolo

L'opera grafica di Chagall / presentazione di Franz Meyer ; documentazione di Hans Bolliger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Electa, (stampa 1957)

Descrizione fisica

191 p. : ill. ; 29 cm

Disciplina

759.7

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

759.7 CHA 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910141050603321

Titolo

Cannabis : philosophy for everyone : what were we just talking about? / / edited by Dale Jacquette ; foreword by Richard Cusick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-4443-4139-1

1-282-93990-4

9786612939907

1-4443-2444-6

1-4443-2445-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Collana

Philosophy for Everyone

Disciplina

178.8

362.29/5

Soggetti

Marijuana

Cannabis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CANNABIS PHILOSOPHY FOR EVERYONE; CONTENTS; Foreword; Preface; Introduction: What is Cannabis and How Can We Get Some?; PART I CANNABIS PHENOMENOLOGY; 1 A Cannabis Odyssey; 2 Seeing Snakes: On Delusion, Knowledge, and the Drug Experience; 3 The Cannabis Experience: An Analysis of "Flow"; PART II MARIJUANA AND SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT; 4 Buzz, High, and Stoned: Metaphor, Meaning, and the Cannabis Experience; 5 The Great Escape; 6 Cannabis and the Human Condition: "Something of the Kind is Indispensable"; PART III CREATIVELY HIGH; 7 Hallucinatory Terror: The World of the Hashish Eater

8 Marijuana and Creativity9 Navigating Creative Inner Space on the Innocent Pleasures of Hashish; PART IV PSYCHO-SOCIOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF CANNABIS CULTURE; 10 Cannabis and the Culture of Alienation; 11 Reefer Madness: Cannabis, the Individual, and Public Policy; 12 Soft vs. Hard: Why Drugs are Not Like Eggs; PART V CANNABIS ETHICS AND POLITICS; 13 "Smoking Pot Doesn't Hurt Anyone But Me!" Why Adults Should be Allowed to Consume Cannabis; 14 Pot Politics: Prohibition and Morality; 15 Cannabis and the Good Life: Needs, Capabilities, and Human Flourishing

16 Weakness of Will: The Cannabis ConnectionNotes on Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

The debate on the status and legality of cannabis continues to gain momentum. Here, personal anecdotes combined with academic and scientific reports combine to sharpen some of the fascinating philosophical issues associated with cannabis use.  A frank, professionally informed and playful discussion of cannabis usage in relation to philosophical inquiry Considers the meaning of a 'high', the morality of smoking marijuana for pleasure, the slippery slope to more dangerous drugs, and the human drive to alter our consciousness Not only incorporates contribut