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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 IdentityPart I. Plato and the Politics of IntoxicationChapter 1: Wine and the SymposionChapter 2: The Symposion and the Question of StasisChapter 3: Plato's Reformulation of the SymposionPart II: The Pharmakon and the Defense of SocratesChapter 4: Drugs, Epic Poetry, and ReligionChapter 5: Socrates AccusedChapter 6: Socrates RehabilitatedPart III. Plato through the Prism of the PharmakonChapter 7: Medicine, Drugs, and Somatic RegimenChapter 8: Magic, Drugs, and Noetic RegimenChapter 9: Speech, Drugs, and Discursive RegimenChapter 10: Philosophy's PharmacyAfterword: Towards a New Ethics of the Pharmakon
