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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... interest in the drug's psychoactive uses . Most French sources link the discovery of hashish to Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1800 ; the drug is said to have been brought back to France by Napoleon's soldiers . But , as with opium ...
... 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 political ...
... interest in drugs as an extension of what fascinated him about modern warfare . He speaks of Dionysus in martial terms , comparing the longevity of his " domination " of the West with the brevity of Alexander's march into Asia ...
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The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs Marcus Boon Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2005 |
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