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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alexander, Anna, 1956-

Roberts, Mark S.

Series:

SUNY Series, Hot Topics : Contemporary Philosophy and Culture

SUNY series, hot topics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Substance abuse.

Creative ability.

Inspiration.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""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""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791487587

079148758X

OCLC:

811404031