High Culture: Drugs, Mysticism, and the Pursuit of Transcendence in the Modern World
- ISBN-10
- 019045914X
- ISBN-13
- 9780190459147
- Series
- High Culture
- Category
- Body, Mind & Spirit
- Language
- English
- Author
- Christopher Hugh Partridge
Description
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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- 2018-06-01
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- 2018-06-01
- 352 pages
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