| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 402 pages) |
| Series |
SUNY series, hot topics |
| Contents |
Introduction / Anna Alexander and Mark S. Roberts -- Part I. Philosophical and literary reflections on addiction -- The rhetoric of drugs / Jacques Derrida -- Nietzsche's Dionysian high : Morphin' with endorphins / David B. Allsion -- Ariadne's thread : Walter Benjamin's hashish passages / Gary Shapiro -- Profane hallucinations : From 'The Arcades Project' to the surrealists / Alima Clej -- Heidegger's craving : Being-on-Schelling / David L. Clark -- Trauma, addiction, and temporal bulimia in Madame Bovary / Elissa Marder -- Baudelaire, Artaud, and the aesthetics of intoxication / Allen S. Weiss -- "Junk" and the other : Burroughs and Levinas on drugs / Jeffrey T. Nealon -- Part II. Socio-cultural and psychological reflections on addiction -- Socially significant drugs / Felix Guattari -- Freud's pharmacy : Cocaine and the corporeal unconscious / Anna Alexander -- Schreber's ecstasies, or who ever listened to Daniel Paul? / Zui Lothane -- Smoke screen : The cultural meaning of women's smoking / Lorraine Greaves -- Love junkies / Alphonso Lingis -- Possession, addiction, fragmentation : Is a healing community possible? / Bruce Wilshire -- Gambling and addiction / Jon Elster -- Addicts without drugs : The media addiction / Mark S. Roberts -- The drug addict in absentia : Hidden populations of illicit drug users and the gaze of power / John Fitzgerald |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Substance abuse.
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Creative ability.
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Inspiration.
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Civilization, Modern.
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substance abuse.
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creativity.
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inspiration.
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Civilization, Modern.
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Creative ability.
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Inspiration.
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Substance abuse.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Alexander, Anna, 1956-
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Roberts, Mark S
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