Christopher Partridge

High Culture

Drugs, Mysticism, and the Pursuit of Transcendence in the Modern World

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Produktbeschreibung

Humans have always been fascinated by drugs and altered states. Despite the risk of addiction, many have used drugs as technologies to induce moments of meaning-making transcendence. Beginning at the close of the eighteenth century, this book traces the quest for transcendence and meaning through drugs in the West through the modern period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 162mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 956g
• ISBN-13: 9780190459116
• ISBN-10: 0190459115
• Artikelnr.: 52154674

Autorenporträt

Chistopher Partridge is a Professor of Religious Studies at Lancaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Technologies of Transcendence
2. Opium Dreams
·3. Anesthetic Revelation
4. Hashishdom
5. Occultism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
6. The Antipodes of the Mind
7. Revolution in the Head
8. Psychedelic Shamanism
Index