High Culture

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Author	: Christopher Hugh Partridge
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Total Pages	: 473
Release	: 2018
ISBN-10	: 9780190459116
ISBN-13	: 0190459115
Rating	: 4/5 (16 Downloads)

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Book Synopsis High Culture by : Christopher Hugh Partridge

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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