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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808158703321

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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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""

Sommario/riassunto

Addresses the place of addiction in modern art, literature, philosophy, and psychology, including its effects on the works of such thinkers and writers as Heidegger, Nietzsche, DeQuincey, Breton, and Burroughs.