High Culture: Drugs, Mysticism, and the Pursuit of Transcendence in the Modern World

ISBN-13: 9780190459116 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 472 str.

Christopher Partridge

Opis

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.

Recenzje

High Culture makes for an enjoyable and instructive read, and should belong on the library shelves of scholars and students of religion seeking to understand the particular formation of modern Western drug use as it has manifested in religious and spiritual expressions, and continues to do so to this day.

O autorze

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