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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785566403321

Titolo

High culture [[electronic resource] ] : reflections on addiction and modernity / / edited by Anna Alexander and Mark S. Roberts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003

ISBN

0-7914-8758-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 p.)

Collana

SUNY series, hot topics

Altri autori (Persone)

AlexanderAnna <1956->

RobertsMark S

Disciplina

394.1/4

Soggetti

Substance abuse

Creative ability

Inspiration

Civilization, Modern

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

""High Culture""; ""Contents""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Part I: PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARYREFLECTIONS ON ADDICTION""; ""1: THE RHETORIC OF DRUGS""; ""2. NIETZSCHE�S DIONYSIAN HIGH: Morphin� with Endorphins""; ""3. ARIADNE�S THREAD: Walter Benjamin�s Hashish Passages""; ""4. PROFANE HALLUCINATIONS: From The Arcades Project to the Surrealists""; ""5. HEIDEGGER�S CRAVING: Being-on-Schelling""; ""6. TRAUMA, ADDICTION, ANDTEMPORAL BULIMIA IN MADAME BOVARY""; ""7. BAUDELAIRE, ARTAUD,AND THE AESTHETICS OF INTOXICATION""

""8. “JUNK� AND THE OTHER: Burroughs and Levinas on Drugs""""Part II: SOCIO-CULTURAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL REFLECTIONSON ADDICTION""; ""9. SOCIALLY SIGNIFICANT DRUGS""; ""10. FREUD�S PHARMACY: Cocaine and the Corporeal Unconscious""; ""11. SCHREBER�S ECSTASIES,OR WHO EVER LISTENED TO DANIEL PAUL?""; ""12. SMOKE SCREEN: The Cultural Meaning of Women�s Smoking""; ""13. LOVE JUNKIES""; ""14. POSSESSION, ADDICTION, FRAGMENTATION: Is a Healing Community Possible?""; ""15. GAMBLING AND ADDICTION""; ""16. ADDICTS WITHOUT DRUGSThe Media Addiction""



""17. THE DRUG ADDICT IN ABSENTIA: Hidden Populations of Illicit Drug Usersand the Gaze of Power""""CONTRIBUTORS""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Untitled""