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"First you take a drink," F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, "then the
drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." Fitzgerald wrote
alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers
debutantes and dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children and
ragtime riff-raff into a newly compiled collection taken from The
Crack-Up, and other works. On Booze portrays "The Jazz Age" as
Fitzgerald experienced it: roaring, rambunctious, and lush - with
quite a hangover.
Handling the Hard Stuff: Conversations on the Philosophy of Alcohol
provides students with a collection of articles that helps them
consider the implications of living in an alcohol-saturated world.
The anthology marries discussions on various styles of alcohol with
readings on the nature of identity, responsibility, freedom, sex,
gender, and virtue. Throughout, students are invited to explore a
number of thought-provoking questions such as: Are humans
evolutionarily programmed to desire the taste of fermenting fruit?
Do we fundamentally change our identity when we are inebriated? How
responsible, both legally and morally, are we for what we do while
inebriated? What role does alcohol play in the dating ritual? What
are the dangers of an addiction to alcohol? Each unit includes
pre-reading questions and prompts to introduce key topics and
prepare students for greater levels of engagement and questioning.
Written to help students engage more thoughtfully, concertedly, and
diligently with the concept of alcohol not just as a crutch or a
treat -but as something that can offer philosophical investigation
and discernment, Handling the Hard Stuff is an ideal resource for
courses and programs in philosophy.
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