High Culture

Ashley.Glickman

Description

This is the first comprehensive text to address addiction and its multiple effects on and extensions into art, literature, philosophy, and psychology. Most research into addiction has taken place within the disciplines of medicine, criminology, politics, and social psychology. When seen from a broad cultural perspective, however, addiction emerges directly alongside modernity, haunting its various discourses of digression, dissent, and the transcendence of the commonplace. Who could even imagine modern writing without the addictive, visionary excesses of writers like Baudelaire, DeQuincey, Poe, Burroughs, or Artaud? Or, for that matter, modern culture without its "outsiders," its incorrigible addicts, its defaced subjects: smokers, users, overeaters, alcoholics, the insane? Taking a cultural studies approach to addiction, High Culture offers a readable and accessible collection of essays on these socially marginalized practices and discourses so central to modernity.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION
Anna Alexander and Mark S. Roberts

PART I. PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY REFLECTIONS ON ADDICTION

1. THE RHETORIC OF DRUGS
Jacques Derrida

2. NIETZSCHE'S DIONYSIAN HIGH:
Morphin' with Endorphins
David B. Allison

3. ARIADNE'S THREAD:
Walter Benjamin's Hashish Passages
Gary Shapiro

4. PROFANE HALLUCINATIONS:
From The Arcades Project to the Surrealists
Alina Clej

5. HEIDEGGER'S CRAVING:
Being-on-Schelling
David L. Clark

6. TRAUMA, ADDICTION, AND TEMPORAL BULIMIA IN MADAME BOVARY
Elissa Marder

7. BAUDELAIRE, ARTAUD, AND THE AESTHETICS OF INTOXICATION
Allen S. Weiss

8. "JUNK" AND THE OTHER:
Burroughs and Levinas on Drugs
Jeffrey T. Nealon

PART II. SOCIO-CULTURAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON ADDICTION

9. SOCIALLY SIGNIFICANT DRUGS
Félix Guattari

10. FREUD'S PHARMACY:
Cocaine and the Corporeal Unconscious
Anna Alexander

11. SCHREBER'S ECSTASIES,OR WHO EVER LISTENED TO DANIEL PAUL?
Zvi Lothane

12. SMOKE SCREEN:
The Cultural Meaning of Women's Smoking
Lorraine Greaves

13. LOVE JUNKIES
Alphonso Lingis

14. POSSESSION, ADDICTION, FRAGMENTATION:
Is a Healing Community Possible?
Bruce Wilshire

15. GAMBLING AND ADDICTION
Jon Elster

16. ADDICTS WITHOUT DRUGS:
The Media Addiction
Mark S. Roberts

17. THE DRUG ADDICT IN ABSENTIA:
Hidden Populations of Illicit Drug Users and the Gaze of Power
John Fitzgerald

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Philosophie du langage
• Philosophie de la langue
• Psychology
• Literary theory

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791487587
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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High culture : reflections on addiction and modernity / edited by Anna Alexander and Mark S. Roberts. p. cm. — (SUNY series, hot topics) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-5553-X (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5554-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Substance abuse. 2. Creative ability. 3. Inspiration. 4. Civilization, Modern. I. Alexander, Anna, 1956– II. Roberts, Mark S. III. Series.

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When he wanted to formulate the task of a philos- ophy yet to come, Friedrich Nietzsche committed this thought to writing: “Who will ever relate the whole his- tory of narcotica?—It is almost the history of ‘culture,’ of our so called high culture”. . . . Our work settles with this Nietzschean “almost”—the place wherenarcotics articulates a quiver between history and ontology. Addiction will be our question: a certain type of “Being-on-drugs” that has everything to do with the bad conscience of our era.

—Avital Ronell,Crack Wars

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I NTRODUCTION 1 Anna Alexander and Mark S. Roberts

PART I. PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY REFLECTIONS ON ADDICTION

C HAPTER O NE THE RHETORIC OF DRUGS Jacques Derrida

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C HAPTER T WO NIETZSCHE’S DIONYSIAN HIGH: Morphin’ with Endorphins 45 David B. Allison

C HAPTER T HREE ARIADNE’S THREAD: Walter Benjamin’s Hashish Passages Gary Shapiro

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C HAPTER F OUR PROFANE HALLUCINATIONS: FromThe Arcades Projectto the Surrealists Alina Clej

C HAPTER F IVE HEIDEGGER’S CRAVING: Being-on-Schelling 95 David L. Clark

C HAPTER S IX TRAUMA, ADDICTION, AND TEMPORAL BULIMIA INMADAME BOVARY Elissa Marder

C HAPTER S EVEN BAUDELAIRE, ARTAUD, AND THE AESTHETICS OF INTOXICATION 157 Allen S. Weiss

C HAPTER E IGHT “JUNK” AND THE OTHER: Burroughs and Levinas on Drugs 173 Jeffrey T. Nealon

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PART II. SOCIO-CULTURAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON ADDICTION

C HAPTER N INE SOCIALLY SIGNIFICANT DRUGS Félix Guattari

C HAPTER T EN FREUD’S PHARMACY: Cocaine and the Corporeal Unconscious Anna Alexander

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C HAPTER E LEVEN SCHREBER’S ECSTASIES, OR WHO EVER LISTENED TO DANIEL PAUL? Zvi Lothane

C HAPTER T WELVE SMOKE SCREEN: The Cultural Meaning of Women’s Smoking Lorraine Greaves

C HAPTER T HIRTEEN LOVE JUNKIES 279 Alphonso Lingis

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C HAPTER F OURTEEN POSSESSION, ADDICTION, FRAGMENTATION: Is a Healing Community Possible? 297 Bruce Wilshire

C HAPTER F IFTEEN GAMBLING AND ADDICTION Jon Elster

C HAPTER S IXTEEN ADDICTS WITHOUT DRUGS: The Media Addiction 339 Mark S. Roberts

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C HAPTER S EVENTEEN THE DRUG ADDICTIN ABSENTIA: Hidden Populations of Illicit Drug Users and the Gaze of Power 355 John Fitzgerald

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