Intoxication

Intoxication

by Nancy, Jean-Luc

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From Plato's Symposium to Hegel's truth as a "Bacchanalian revel," from The Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also haunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and navigates their proximities and differences.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Intoxication / Jean-Luc Nancy ; translated by Philip Armstrong.

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From Plato's Symposium to Hegel's truth as a "Bacchanalian revel," from The Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also haunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and navigates their proximities and differences.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2016

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The Physical Object

  • Description:57 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780823267729, 0823267725, 9780823267736, 0823267733
  • oclc:ocn932750734
  • LC Classification:B2430.N363
  • Dewey Decimal:194

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