Writing on drugs

by Plant, Sadie

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Title Statements

Full title :Writing on drugs / Sadie Plant.

Summary

Through a series of close, fascinating examinations of writing on drugs via, among others, Coleridge on opium, Freud on cocaine, Michaux on mescaline, and Burroughs on all of them, Writing on Drugs combines literary criticism with both socio-cultural history and pharmacological science to show how and why drugs have so thoroughly invaded modernity in ways precise and various, profound and unique.

Right or wrong, safe or dangerous, Plant illustrates that narcotics, stimulants, and hallucinogens have actually been integral to the cultural life of modern times. They have shaped some of the era's most fundamental philosophies and provided much of its economic wealth. They have even exposed the neurochemistry of the human brain, which, like society itself, has never been drug-free. Writing on Drugs fully and compellingly explores the pervasive and ongoing influence of drugs on contemporary thought, word, and deed.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2000.
Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2000.

Notes

Originally published: London : Faber and Faber, 1999.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 294 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0374293341, 9780374293345, 0312278748, 9780312278748
oclc:ocm43287298
LC Classification:HV5801
Dewey Decimal:394.1/4

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