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Culture on drugs extends the discussion of drugs and drug culture beyond the boundaries of such disciplines as sociology, anthropology and criminology to cultural and literary studies and philosophy.

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1. Deposition: drugs in theory
2. Medusa’s Blood: Derrida’s recreational pharmacology and the rhetoric of drugs
3. Deconstruction and drugs – all mixed up
4. Freud's medicine: from the "cocaine papers" to Irma's injection
5. Benjamin and the dialectics of intoxication
6. Hallucinating Sartre
7. Foucault and Deleuze on acid: freeing thought from the catatonic chrysalis
8. Cinematic heroin and narcotic modernity

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 31/12/2006
      ISBN13: 9780719055980, 978-0719055980
      ISBN10: 719055989

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Culture on drugs extends the discussion of drugs and drug culture beyond the boundaries of such disciplines as sociology, anthropology and criminology to cultural and literary studies and philosophy.

      Table of Contents

      1. Deposition: drugs in theory
      2. Medusa’s Blood: Derrida’s recreational pharmacology and the rhetoric of drugs
      3. Deconstruction and drugs – all mixed up
      4. Freud's medicine: from the "cocaine papers" to Irma's injection
      5. Benjamin and the dialectics of intoxication
      6. Hallucinating Sartre
      7. Foucault and Deleuze on acid: freeing thought from the catatonic chrysalis
      8. Cinematic heroin and narcotic modernity

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