High Culture

Informationen zum Autor Chistopher Partridge is a Professor of Religious Studies at Lancaster University. Klappentext 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 book traces the quest for transcendence and meaning through drugs in the West through the modern period. Zusammenfassung 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 book traces the quest for transcendence and meaning through drugs in the West through the modern period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Technologies of Transcendence 2. Opium Dreams ·3. Anesthetic Revelation 4. Hashishdom 5. Occultism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 6. The Antipodes of the Mind 7. Revolution in the Head 8. Psychedelic Shamanism Index

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Chistopher Partridge is a Professor of Religious Studies at Lancaster University.

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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 book traces the quest for transcendence and meaning through drugs in the West through the modern period.

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• Acknowledgements

• Introduction

• 1. Technologies of Transcendence
• 2. Opium Dreams

• ·3. Anesthetic Revelation

• 4. Hashishdom
• 5. Occultism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
• 6. The Antipodes of the Mind
• 7. Revolution in the Head
• 8. Psychedelic Shamanism

• Index