Culture on drugs narco-cultural studies of high modernity
Never has a reconsideration of the place of drugs in our culture been more urgent than it is today. Culture on drugs addresses themes such as the nature of consciousness, language and the body, alienation, selfhood, the image and virtuality and the nature/culture dyad and everyday life. It then expl...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798333806719 |
| Summary: | Never has a reconsideration of the place of drugs in our culture been more urgent than it is today. Culture on drugs addresses themes such as the nature of consciousness, language and the body, alienation, selfhood, the image and virtuality and the nature/culture dyad and everyday life. It then explores how these are expressed in the work of key figures such as Freud, Benjamin, Sartre, Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze, arguing that the ideas and concepts by which modernity has attained its measure of self-understanding are themselves, in various ways, the products of encounters with drugs and the. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847795274 9781781700921 9781847791634 |
