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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... idea because the notion of a writer taking drugs is already more or less than an idea — it is linked to material traces , to chemicals , to plants , to economics , all fields of activity that go beyond the his- tory of ideas . There ...
... ideas proliferating without reaching closure or conclu- sion . Of course , many modern texts display these characteristics - because modernity as a whole is fascinated by the same set of effects that the stimu- lants trigger ...
... ideas , each of which is in itself somewhat interesting and orig- inal , and which appears to be connected to the ideas that precede and follow it . As I have shown , each thought is interrupted by the next one in such a way that the ...
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