Dave Boothroyd

Culture on drugs

Narco-cultural studies of high modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

Culture on drugs extends the discussion of drugs and drug culture beyond the boundaries of such disciplines as sociology, anthropology and criminology to cultural and literary studies and philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9780719055997
• ISBN-10: 0719055997
• Artikelnr.: 22895791

Autorenporträt

Dave Boothroyd teaches Cultural Studies at the University of Kent

Inhaltsangabe

1. Deposition: drugs in theory 2. Medusa's Blood: Derrida's recreational
pharmacology and the rhetoric of drugs 3. Deconstruction and drugs - all
mixed up 4. Freud's medicine: from the "cocaine papers" to Irma's injection
5. Benjamin and the dialectics of intoxication 6. Hallucinating Sartre 7.
Foucault and Deleuze on acid: freeing thought from the catatonic chrysalis
8. Cinematic heroin and narcotic modernity