Writing on Drugs

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  • Writing on Drugs Book Detail

  • Author : Sadie Plant
  • Release Date : 2001-07-06
  • Publisher : Picador
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 304
  • ISBN 13 : 9780312278748
  • File Size : 36,36 MB

Writing on Drugs by Sadie Plant PDF Summary

Book Description: Through a series of close, fascinating examinations of writing on drugs via, among others, Coleridge on opium, Freud on cocaine, Michaux on mescaline, and Burroughs on all of them, Writing on Drugs combines literary criticism with both socio-cultural history and pharmacological science to show how and why drugs have so thoroughly invaded modernity in ways precise and various, profound and unique. Right or wrong, safe or dangerous, Plant illustrates that narcotics, stimulants, and hallucinogens have actually been integral to the cultural life of modern times. They have shaped some of the era's most fundamental philosophies and provided much of its economic wealth. They have even exposed the neurochemistry of the human brain, which, like society itself, has never been drug-free. Writing on Drugs fully and compellingly explores the pervasive and ongoing influence of drugs on contemporary thought, word, and deed.

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