Author: Alexander, Anna & Roberts, Mark S.; editors:
Title: High Culture: Reflections on Addiction and Modernity
Description: Albany [NY], State University of New York, (2003). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xiii,402 pp. BOUND UPSIDE-DOWN. Some side page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contains 17 papers. Includes J. Derrida "The Rhetoric of Drugs"; D.B. Allison "Nietzsche's Dionysian High: Morphin' with Endorphins"; G,. Shpiro "Ariadne's Thread: Walter Benjamin's Hashish Passgaes"; A. Clej "Profane Hallucinations: From the 'Arcades Project' to the Surrealists"; D.L. Clark "Heidegger's Craving: Being-on-Schelling"; E. Marder "Trauma, Addiction, & Temporal Bulimia in 'Madame Bovary'"; A.S. Weiss "Baudelaire, Artaud, & the Aesthetics of Intoxication"; J.T. Nealon "'Junk' & the Other: Burroughs & Levinas on Drugs"; F. Guattari "Socially Significant Drugs"; A.Alexander "Freud's Pharmacy: Cocaine & the Corporeal Unconscious"; Z. Lothane "Schreber's Ecstacies: Or Who Ever Listened to Daniel Paul?"; L. Graves "Smoke Screens: The Cultural Meaning of Women's Smoking"; A. Lingis "Love Junkies"; B. Wilshire "Possession, Addiction. Fragmentation: Is a Healing Community Possible?"; J. Elster "Gambling & Addicition"; M.S. Roberts "Addicts without Drugs: The Media Addiction"; J. Fitzgerald "The Drug Addict In Absentia: Hidden Populations of Illicit Drug Users & the Gaze of Power".

Keywords: Substance Abuse, Narcotic Drugs, Drug Addiction, Psychology, Social Criticism, Literature Addict, Literary Sociology, Critical Theory, Creativity Addicts