Euphoria and Symposia : The Dialectic of Desire in Thinking, Drinking, and Well-Being.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bonner, Kieran.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drinking of alcoholic beverages.

Desire.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Informed by a Socratic interrogation, hermeneutic perspectives drawn from post-phenomenological thinkers, and distinctive perspectives found in the tradition of reflexive sociology, Euphoria and Symposia asserts that reconciling unlimited desire with the finite nature of the human condition is essential for the understanding and enjoyment of life itself.

Contents:

Cover

EUPHORIA AND SYMPOSIA

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

In Gratitude

Introduction

1 Drinking Discourses and Grey Zone of Well-Being

2 Desire for Pleasure: The Educational Effect of Drinking Parties and Drunkenness

3 Desire for Progress: The American Prohibition Experiment

4 “Desire, Use, Repeat”: Addiction and AA

5 Willing and Divided Desire: Truth and Self-Awareness through AA

6 Desire for Good Company: Inebriation, Health, Well-Being

7 Desire and Euphoria: Drinking, Thinking, and Thoughtlessness

8 Desire to Learn, Self-Development, Repeat

9 Desire and Ironic Inebriation: Thinking, Drinking, and Madness (Plato’s Symposium)

10 Desire for Wisdom: Lovers, Madness, and Addiction

11 Human Flourishing: A Modest Proposal

Notes

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ISBN:

0-2280-2510-9

OCLC:

1522808458