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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Partridge Christopher H (Christopher Hugh), <1961->"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"High culture : drugs, mysticism, and the pursuit of transcendence in the modern world / / Christopher Partridge [[electronic resource]]"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2018"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"0-19-045913-1"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-19-045914-X"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"154.4"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Hallucinogenic drugs"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Hallucinogenic drugs - Therapeutic use"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Transcendence (Philosophy)"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Previously issued in print: 2018."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Cover -- High Culture -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Technologies of Transcendence -- Technologies of the Self -- Psychedelic Gnosis and the Transcendence of Ordinary Consciousness -- Perennialism and the Experience of Oneness -- Shamanism and Ekstasis -- Concluding Analysis: The Drug Problem? -- 2. Opium Dreams -- Opium in Britain in the Early Nineteenth Century:  Some Background Notes -- The Art of Dreaming -- The English Opium-​Eater -- Opium and the Orient: Fear and Fascination -- Concluding Comments -- 3. Anesthetic Revelation -- A Ladder to the Heaven of Heavens -- Syntax, Surgery, and Celestial Visions -- Benjamin Blood's Anesthetic Revelation -- Anesthesia and the Society for Psychical Research -- Concluding Comments -- 4. Hashishdom -- Cannabis and Clinical Research in the Nineteenth Century -- The Old Man of the Mountain and the Assassins -- Artificial Paradises -- The American Hashish-​Eater -- Concluding Comments -- 5. Occultism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Mesmerism, Hashish, and Somnambulism -- Dowameskh, the Orient, and Neoplatonic Esotericism -- Abstinence and Ambivalence -- Theosophical Reflection -- Discourses of Decadence -- W.B. Yeats, Maud Gonne, Drugs, and Fin de Siècle Occultism -- The Highs and Lows of a Drug Fiend -- A Note on Drugs and Post-​Crowleyan Thelemic Thought -- Concluding Comments -- 6. The Antipodes of the Mind -- Psychedelic Research: Some Background Notes -- A Mystic and a "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Scientist -- Mysticism, Sacred, and Profane -- Concluding Comments -- 7. Revolution in the Head -- Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness -- A Religious Set and Setting -- Notes on the Counterculture -- Millbrook and Psychedelic Religion -- The Neo-​American Church -- The Psychedelic Sacrament -- Turning On and Turning East -- Concluding Comments."]
[{"$nulls":4},"8. Psychedelic Shamanism -- Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy -- The Long Trip and the Origin of Religion -- The Sorcerer's Apprentice? -- Alien Dreamtime -- Concluding Comments -- Notes -- Index."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Humans have always been fascinated by drugs and altered states. Despite the risk of addiction, many have used drugs as technologies to induce moments of meaning-making transcendence. Beginning at the close of the eighteenth century, this work traces the quest for transcendence and meaning through drugs in the West through the modern period."]