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The Pharmakon
Concept Figure, Image of Transgression, Poetic Practice
Herausgeber: Herlinghaus, Hermann
Beiträge zur Philosophie, Neue Folge
2018
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Abstract
The ancient Greek semantic of “pharmakon” comprised at least three meanings – denoting a medicine, a poison, and/or a magic potion. This helps to uncover a non-dogmatic meaning of “drugs.” A millenarian cultural history testifies to the ongoing need of communities and societies to actively use and deal with “pharmaka,” prominently including mind-altering substances. However, Western modernity has complicated an unbiased approach to the pharmacological aspects of historical and social life by aggressively multiplying, and later restricting psychoactive substances. The present volume questions a logic of good vs. bad drugs as it discusses a wide semantic spectrum – the cultural, anthropological, aesthetic, and poetological scope of the “pharmakon.” In order to critically resituate the concept, the book offers a glance into compelling scenarios, European, North American, Latin American, Transatlantic, and fascinating transdisciplinary perspectives.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | C | ||
| Title | III | ||
| Copyright | IV | ||
| Table of Contents | V | ||
| Acknowledgements | VII | ||
| HERMANN HERLINGHAUS: Introduction: Towards a Cultural Pharmacology | 1 | ||
| I Renarrations into the Twentieth Century | 21 | ||
| MIKE JAY: What is a Drug? On the Construction of a Modern Concept | 21 | ||
| ROBERT FEUSTEL: Shifting Experiences, Shifting Borders: Towards a Deconstructive Reading ofIntoxication/‚Rausch‘ | 35 | ||
| HERMANN HERLINGHAUS/ARNE ROMANOWSKI: Grey Magic and Transatlantic Intoxications: Incursions into the Modernity of Tobacco | 51 | ||
| II Hemispheric Scenarios – Cultural Explorations | 93 | ||
| NANCY D. CAMPBELL: The Conceptual Migration from ‘Intoxication of Desire’ to ‘Disease of Democracy’: Addiction, Narcotic Bondage, and North American Modernity | 93 | ||
| AGNIESZKA SOLTYSIKMONNET: All is Connected to All (Beyond Normative Perception): Maxine Hong Kingston and the Psychedelic Politics of the Counterculture | 125 | ||
| SCOTT MCCLINTOCK: William S. Burroughs’ Pharmacy | 145 | ||
| III Aesthetics and Poetology | 175 | ||
| MARTIN TREML: Pharmakon in Ancient Greek Traditions: Practices between Magic and Philosophy, Tragedy and Political Mythology | 175 | ||
| CORNELIA WILD: Love and Addiction: Courtly Love and the Pharmakon | 205 | ||
| THOMAS KLINKERT: Intoxication and the Aesthetics of Modern Poetry (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé) | 223 | ||
| DIEMO LANDGRAF: Intoxication and Ecstasy in Guillaume Apollinaire’s ‚Alcools‘ | 251 | ||
| IV Interfaces | 273 | ||
| KATRIN SOLHDJU: Experimenting in the Conflict Zone: What Can be Learned from (Hi-)Stories of Pre-prohibitive Drug Use? | 273 | ||
| MICHAELA OTT: From Pharmakon to Affection: The Ambivalence of an Epistemological Figure | 299 | ||
| TODD MEYERS: Promise and Deceit: Pharmakos, Drug Replacement Therapy, and the Perils of Experience | 319 | ||
| NANCY D. CAMPBELL: Rewriting the ‘Antidrug’: The Ambivalence of the Pharmakon in the Cultural Discourse of Overdose | 343 | ||
| The Authors | 371 | ||
| Index | 377 | ||
| Backcover | 393 |
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