The Pharmakon : Concept Figure, Image of Transgression, Poetic Practice.

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; HERMANN HERLINGHAUS: Introduction: Towards a Cultural Pharmacology; I Renarrations into the Twentieth Century; MIKE JAY: What is a Drug? On the Construction of a Modern Concept; ROBERT FEUSTEL: Shifting Experiences, Shifting Borders: Towards a Deconstructive Reading ofIntoxication/‚Rausch'; HERMANN HERLINGHAUS/ARNE ROMANOWSKI: Grey Magic and Transatlantic Intoxications: Incursions into the Modernity of Tobacco; II Hemispheric Scenarios -- Cultural Explorations

NANCY D. CAMPBELL: The Conceptual Migration from 'Intoxication of Desire' to 'Disease of Democracy': Addiction, Narcotic Bondage, and North American ModernityAGNIESZKA SOLTYSIKMONNET: All is Connected to All (Beyond Normative Perception): Maxine Hong Kingston and the Psychedelic Politics of the Counterculture; SCOTT MCCLINTOCK: William S. Burroughs' Pharmacy; III Aesthetics and Poetology; MARTIN TREML: Pharmakon in Ancient Greek Traditions: Practices between Magic and Philosophy, Tragedy and Political Mythology; CORNELIA WILD: Love and Addiction: Courtly Love and the Pharmakon

THOMAS KLINKERT: Intoxication and the Aesthetics of Modern Poetry (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé)DIEMO LANDGRAF: Intoxication and Ecstasy in Guillaume Apollinaire's ‚Alcools'; IV Interfaces; KATRIN SOLHDJU: Experimenting in the Conflict Zone: What Can be Learned from (Hi-)Stories of Pre-prohibitive Drug Use?; MICHAELA OTT: From Pharmakon to Affection: The Ambivalence of an Epistemological Figure; TODD MEYERS: Promise and Deceit: Pharmakos, Drug Replacement Therapy, and the Perils of Experience

NANCY D. CAMPBELL: Rewriting the 'Antidrug': The Ambivalence of the Pharmakon in the Cultural Discourse of OverdoseThe Authors; Index; Backcover

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