High Culture

High Culture
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 473
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ISBN-10 : 9780190459116
ISBN-13 : 0190459115
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Book Synopsis High Culture by : Christopher Hugh Partridge

Download or read book High Culture written by Christopher Hugh Partridge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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