High culture : drugs, mysticism, and the pursuit of transcendence in the modern world / Christopher Partridge.
2018
BF207
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Title
High culture : drugs, mysticism, and the pursuit of transcendence in the modern world / Christopher Partridge.
ISBN
9780190459147 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
BF207
Dewey Decimal Classification
154.4
Summary
Humans have always been fascinated by drugs and altered states. Despite the risk of addiction, many have used drugs as technologies to induce moments of meaning-making transcendence. Beginning at the close of the eighteenth century, this work traces the quest for transcendence and meaning through drugs in the West through the modern period.
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Humans have always been fascinated by drugs and altered states. Despite the risk of addiction, many have used drugs as technologies to induce moments of meaning-making transcendence. Beginning at the close of the eighteenth century, this work traces the quest for transcendence and meaning through drugs in the West through the modern period.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 18, 2018).
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Print version: 9780190459116
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