Culture on drugs : narco-cultural studies of high modernity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boothroyd, Dave
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester, UK ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2006.
Subjects:
Drugs of abuse > Social aspects.
Narcotics > Social aspects.
Drug abuse > Psychological aspects.
Intellectual life.
Social evolution.
Table of Contents:
  • Deposition : drugs in theory
  • Medusa's blood : Derrida's recreational pharmacology and the rhetoric of drugs
  • Deconstruction and drugs : all mixed up
  • Freud's medicine : from the 'cocaine papers' to 'Irma's injection'
  • Benjamin's 'curious dialectics of intoxication'
  • Hallucinating Sartre
  • Foucault and Deleuze on acid
  • Cinematic heroin and narcotic modernity.

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