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Description:This is the first comprehensive text to address addiction and its multiple effects on and extensions into art, literature, philosophy, and psychology. Most research into addiction has taken place within the disciplines of medicine, criminology, politics, and social psychology. When seen from a broad cultural perspective, however, addiction emerges directly alongside modernity, haunting its various discourses of digression, dissent, and the transcendence of the commonplace. Who could even imagine modern writing without the addictive, visionary excesses of writers like Baudelaire, DeQuincey, Poe, Burroughs, or Artaud? Or, for that matter, modern culture without its "outsiders, " its incorrigible addicts, its defaced subjects: smokers, users, overeaters, alcoholics, the insane?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with High Culture: Reflections on Addiction and Modernity (Hot Topics Contemp Philosophy). To get started finding High Culture: Reflections on Addiction and Modernity (Hot Topics Contemp Philosophy), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This is the first comprehensive text to address addiction and its multiple effects on and extensions into art, literature, philosophy, and psychology. Most research into addiction has taken place within the disciplines of medicine, criminology, politics, and social psychology. When seen from a broad cultural perspective, however, addiction emerges directly alongside modernity, haunting its various discourses of digression, dissent, and the transcendence of the commonplace. Who could even imagine modern writing without the addictive, visionary excesses of writers like Baudelaire, DeQuincey, Poe, Burroughs, or Artaud? Or, for that matter, modern culture without its "outsiders, " its incorrigible addicts, its defaced subjects: smokers, users, overeaters, alcoholics, the insane?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with High Culture: Reflections on Addiction and Modernity (Hot Topics Contemp Philosophy). To get started finding High Culture: Reflections on Addiction and Modernity (Hot Topics Contemp Philosophy), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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