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

by Christopher Partridge

History is littered with evidence of humanity's fascination with drugs and the pursuit of altered states. From early Romanticism to late-nineteenth-century occultism and from fin de si cle Paris to contemporary psychedelic shamanism, psychoactive substances have playedcatalyzing people. Yet serious analysis of the religious dimensions of modern drug use is still lacking.

the use of drugs and the pursuit of transcendence from the nineteenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190459115
• ISBN13: 9780190459116
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.4"