High Culture
Subtitle: Reflections on Addiction and Modernity (Suny Series in Postmodern Culture)
Contributors: Anna Alexander (Editor); Mark S. Roberts (Editor)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780791455548
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Literary theory; Philosophy; Psychiatry; Psychology; Sociology - Social Theory; Movements - Deconstruction; Customs & Traditions; Sociology; Semiotics & Theory; Psychopathology - Addiction; Creative ability; Substance abuse; History; Civilization, Modern; Inspiration
Description: Seventeen contributions from Alexander (Concordia U., Montreal), Roberts (philosophy, SUNY, Stony Brook), and other scholars take a cultural studies approach to addiction. The volume opens with an essay by Jacques Derrida on the rhetoric of drugs. Other topics include Walter Benjamin's hashish passages, the cultural meaning of women's smoking, and.