TY - BOOK ID - 137693611 TI - Culture on drugs PY - 2006 SN - 1847795277 1781700923 1847791638 9781781700921 9781847791634 0719055997 9780719055997 9781847795274 0719055989 9780719055980 0719055997 9780719055997 PB - Manchester, UK New York New York DB - UniCat KW - Drugs KW - Social aspects. KW - alienation. KW - consciousness. KW - cultural crises. KW - drugs. KW - high theory. KW - modernity. KW - nature/culture dyad. KW - self-understanding. KW - selfhood. KW - virtuality. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137693611 AB - Never has a reconsideration of the place of drugs in our culture been more urgent than it is today. Culture on drugs addresses themes such as the nature of consciousness, language and the body, alienation, selfhood, the image and virtuality and the nature/culture dyad and everyday life. It then explores how these are expressed in the work of key figures such as Freud, Benjamin, Sartre, Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze, arguing that the ideas and concepts by which modernity has attained its measure of self-understanding are themselves, in various ways, the products of encounters with drugs and the. ER -