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Overview
This sensational anthology features a rich tapestry of voices exploring the powerful role that mind-altering drugs have played throughout history. It brings together a multiplicity of voices to explore the presence--both secret and public--of drugs in the overlapping dialogues of science and religion, pleasure and madness, individualism and social control. Featuring writings by William Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Aldous Huxley, Alice B. Toklas, Charles Baudelaire, Sigmund Freud, and an array of other seekers, Artificial Paradises locates the origins, busts the myths, examines the scientific studies, and embraces the controversy surrounding drugs, offering an honest, if not psychedelic, portrait of the lives and minds of those who have used them."Excellent . . . shows how drugs permeate the very fabric of our history and culture."--Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting
"This is a superb anthology--scholarly, penetrative, mind-expanding. It's probably the best of its kind." --Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam
Mike Jay authored Blue Tide: The Search for Soma and, with Michael Neve, edited 1900: A Fin-de-Sie`cle Reader.
Book Details
Published
September 13, 1999
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Pages
400
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780141181158