High Culture

Reflections on Addiction and Modernity

AvAnna Alexander,Mark S. Roberts

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

Del i serien SUNY series, Hot Topics: Contemporary Philosophy and Culture

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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.This is the first comprehensive text to address addiction and its multiple effects on and extensions into art, literature, philosophy, and psychology. Most research into addiction has taken place within the disciplines of medicine, criminology, politics, and social psychology. When seen from a broad cultural perspective, however, addiction emerges directly alongside modernity, haunting its various discourses of digression, dissent, and the transcendence of the commonplace. Who could even imagine modern writing without the addictive, visionary excesses of writers like Baudelaire, DeQuincey, Poe, Burroughs, or Artaud? Or, for that matter, modern culture without its "outsiders," its incorrigible addicts, its defaced subjects: smokers, users, overeaters, alcoholics, the insane? Taking a cultural studies approach to addiction, High Culture offers a readable and accessible collection of essays on these socially marginalized practices and discourses so central to modernity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-12-16
Mått:166 x 217 x 23 mm
Vikt:572 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series, Hot Topics: Contemporary Philosophy and Culture
Antal sidor:416
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791455548

Utforska kategorier

Litteraturteori inom Skönlitteratur
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

Anna Alexander teaches at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University in Montreal. Mark S. Roberts teaches in the Department of Philosophy at State University of New York at Stony Brook.

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"This book does something that few works on addiction have done since the 1970s: take seriously the drug-induced or modulated experience—not just as meaningful to drug users and their immediate social groups, but as revealing something important about existence, consciousness, and subjectivity. The writers in this volume have made a new incursion into this area of exploration." — Medical Humanities Review"This book unveils a latent but profoundly significant—and largely ignored—dimension of modernity, namely, the relationship to addiction. The contributors focus important new light on a dimension of modern life that is omnipresent and at the same time profoundly neglected. This is crucial scholarship—applied philosophy—and powerful testimony that philosophy has much to say about everyday life." — Michael Dorland, Carleton University"This is a useful, multifaceted collection foregrounding a phenomenon that is too little examined from a philosophical or theoretical point of view—if anything deserves attention in the growing literature devoted to cultural criticism, it is addiction." — Babette E. Babich, author of Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science

Innehållsförteckning

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTIONAnna Alexander and Mark S. Roberts PART I. PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY REFLECTIONS ON ADDICTION 1. THE RHETORIC OF DRUGSJacques Derrida 2. NIETZSCHE'S DIONYSIAN HIGH:Morphin' with EndorphinsDavid B. Allison 3. ARIADNE'S THREAD:Walter Benjamin's Hashish PassagesGary Shapiro 4. PROFANE HALLUCINATIONS:From The Arcades Project to the SurrealistsAlina Clej 5. HEIDEGGER'S CRAVING:Being-on-SchellingDavid L. Clark 6. TRAUMA, ADDICTION, AND TEMPORAL BULIMIA IN MADAME BOVARYElissa Marder 7. BAUDELAIRE, ARTAUD, AND THE AESTHETICS OF INTOXICATIONAllen S. Weiss 8. "JUNK" AND THE OTHER:Burroughs and Levinas on DrugsJeffrey T. Nealon PART II. SOCIO-CULTURAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON ADDICTION 9. SOCIALLY SIGNIFICANT DRUGSFélix Guattari 10. FREUD'S PHARMACY:Cocaine and the Corporeal UnconsciousAnna Alexander 11. SCHREBER'S ECSTASIES,OR WHO EVER LISTENED TO DANIEL PAUL?Zvi Lothane 12. SMOKE SCREEN:The Cultural Meaning of Women's SmokingLorraine Greaves 13. LOVE JUNKIESAlphonso Lingis 14. POSSESSION, ADDICTION, FRAGMENTATION:Is a Healing Community Possible? Bruce Wilshire 15. GAMBLING AND ADDICTIONJon Elster 16. ADDICTS WITHOUT DRUGS:The Media AddictionMark S. Roberts 17. THE DRUG ADDICT IN ABSENTIA:Hidden Populations of Illicit Drug Users and the Gaze of PowerJohn Fitzgerald CONTRIBUTORS INDEX