Out of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication
by Stuart Walton
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In this accessible, entertaining and scholarly book, Stuart Walton takes on Nietzsche's challenge in The Gay Science: who will ever relate the whole history of narcotica? It is almost the history of culture - from Greek and Roman antiquity, through the middle ages, the English Restoration, to the 21st century.Tags
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It definitely gave me a lot to think about though pretty self-righteous at moments.
An amazing book.
Read it and join the Drug Policy Reform Movement: Intoxication is a Human Right.
Read it and join the Drug Policy Reform Movement: Intoxication is a Human Right.
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2001
- People/Characters
- Stuart Walton; Billie Holiday; Terence McKenna; Dionysos; Dionysus; Zeus (show all 51); Pentheus; Athenians; Sabazius; Plato, ca. 428-347 BC; Aristippus; Epicurus, ca. 341-ca. 270 BC; Demeter; Alcibiades; God; Noah; Trevor Shannon; Mohammed; Hasan ibn-Sabah; Dr. Benjamin Rush; Thomas Trotter; Donald Johnson; Anthony Eden; Sigmund Freud; Angelo Mariani; Annie C. Meyers; Billie Carleton; Frederick Stuart; Lady Frankau; Alexander Shulgin; Ann Shulgin; Al Hubbard; Timothy Leary; Humphry Davy; Martin Booth; Jerry Thomas; Carry A. Nation (Carrie Nation); Wayne Wheeler; Keith Hellawell; Janis Joplin; Jack Kerouac; William S. Burroughs; Malcolm Lowry; Walter Benjamin; Marianne Faithfull; Marc Almond; Brain Harvey; Noel Gallagher; Thomas de Quincy; Socrates; Tracey Emin
- Important places
- University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK; Houses of Parliament, London, England, UK; Maine, USA; Beringer Vineyards; Eleusis
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Intoxication is a human right
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Sociology, History, General Nonfiction, Food & Cooking, Religion & Spirituality
- DDC/MDS
- 394.1 — Society, Government, and Culture Customs, etiquette & folklore General customs Eating, drinking, using drugs
- LCC
- HV5020 .W35 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Alcoholism. Intemperance. Temperance reform
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- 152
- Popularity
- 214,722
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.71)
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 5
