The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on DrugsHarvard University Press, 1. des. 2002 - 360 sider From the antiquity of Homer to yesterday's Naked Lunch, writers have found inspiration, and readers have lost themselves, in a world of the imagination tinged and oftentimes transformed by drugs. The age-old association of literature and drugs receives its first comprehensive treatment in this far-reaching work. Drawing on history, science, biography, literary analysis, and ethnography, Marcus Boon shows that the concept of drugs is fundamentally interdisciplinary, and reveals how different sets of connections between disciplines configure each drug's unique history. |
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... Benjamin took hashish for the first time in December 1927 with the Berlin doctors Ernst Joël and Fritz Fränkel.81 Benjamin had known Joël when they were in college in Berlin , where they had headed rival student organizations . Joël ...
... Benjamin believed that any hint of a mystical experience had to be subsumed and redi- rected toward specific social , political , or aesthetic goals . Benjamin claimed that the Surrealists aimed " to win the energies of intoxication for ...
... Benjamin's interest in hashish was connected to his interest in unlocking cosmic energies to drive the proletarian revolution . " 1 Although it is true that Benjamin's inter- est in drugs has been effaced owing to aesthetic and ...
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The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs Marcus Boon Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2005 |
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