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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
- Ambrose Bierce
(1842 - 1914),
The Devil's Dictionary
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ZIN Product Number: 10269126
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 Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 079145553X
Release Date: Jan 10, 1998
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Addresses the place of addiction in modern art, literature, philosophy, and psychology, including its effects on the works of such thinkers and writers as Heidegger, Nietzsche, DeQuincey, Breton, and Burroughs. BACKCOVER: 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.
Author Biography: Anna Alexander is Professor at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University in Montreal. Mark S. Roberts teaches in the Department of Philosophy at State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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