Pharmakon - Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens

Informationen zum Autor Michael A. Rinella holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, SUNY, and he is currently an instructor of political theory at Empire State College. Klappentext Pharmakon traces the emergence of an ethical discourse in ancient Greece, one centered on states of psychological ecstasy. In the dialogues of Plato, philosophy is itself characterized as a pharmakon, one superior to a large number of rival occupations, each of which laid claim to their powers being derived from, connected with, or likened to, a pharmakon. Accessible yet erudite, Pharmakon is one of the most comprehensive examinations of the place of intoxicants in ancient thought yet written. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - The Pharmakon, Ecstasy, and Identity Part I. Plato and the Politics of Intoxication Chapter 1: Wine and the Symposion Chapter 2: The Symposion and the Question of Stasis Chapter 3: Plato's Reformulation of the Symposion Part II: The Pharmakon and the Defense of Socrates Chapter 4: Drugs, Epic Poetry, and Religion Chapter 5: Socrates Accused Chapter 6: Socrates Rehabilitated Part III. Plato through the Prism of the Pharmakon Chapter 7: Medicine, Drugs, and Somatic Regimen Chapter 8: Magic, Drugs, and Noetic Regimen Chapter 9: Speech, Drugs, and Discursive Regimen Chapter 10: Philosophy's Pharmacy Afterword: Towards a New Ethics of the Pharmakon

Product details

• Authors: Michael A. Rinella, Rinella Michael A.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2011
• EAN: 9780739146873
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-4687-3
• No. of pages: 358
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History, European History, PHILOSOPHY / Social, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Literary theory, ancient philosophy, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, HISTORY / Europe / Greece