Intoxication /
From Plato's Symposium to Hegel's truth as a "Bacchanalian revel," from The Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and po...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English French |
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New York [New York] :
Fordham University Press,
2016
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2015 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Idiom (Fordham University Press)
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | From Plato's Symposium to Hegel's truth as a "Bacchanalian revel," from The Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also haunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and navigates their proximities and differences. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 PDF (57 pages)) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780823267767 0823267768 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
