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Why We Take Drugs - Seeking Excess and Communion in the Modern World (Paperback)
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Why We Take Drugs - Seeking Excess and Communion in the Modern World (Paperback)
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In older cultures, the use of intoxicant drugs was integrated into
the rhythms of social existence and bounded by rituals and taboos
that ensured their dangerous forces were contained and channelled.
In modern western societies, by contrast, the state and the
institutions of society have washed their hands of any
responsibility for assimilating the desire for intoxication into
social existence, and by doing so have sponsored a free-for-all
that has often had disastrous consequences for individuals and
communities alike. Why We Take Drugs provides a timely intervention
in the growing debate about the wisdom of the ongoing 'war on
drugs'. Rather than adopting the assumption that drug and alcohol
use is a problem that poses a threat to society, this book makes a
case for the idea that society is a problem for intoxicant drug use
and that it is society that poses a threat, by denying those who
seek intoxication a legitimate and socially sanctioned space in
which to experience these altered states. Scholarly yet
approachable, it provides a new understanding of the meaning and
role of intoxicant drug use in contemporary society, setting an
in-depth phenomenological analysis of intoxication as an embodied
experience within a wide sociological, anthropological and
historical context. These ideas are brought to life by intimate and
revealing accounts of ordinary drug users' experiences with a wide
range of substances. This book will appeal to a wide range of
students and scholars throughout the social sciences, particularly
in the areas of drug and alcohol studies, body studies, cultural
studies, anthropology and philosophy.
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