High Culture

High CultureAddresses the place of addiction in modern art, literature, philosophy, and psychology, including its effects on the works of such thinkers and writers as Heidegger, Nietzsche, DeQuincey, Breton, and Burroughs. This is the first comprehensive text to address addiction and its multiple effects on and extensions into art, literature, philosophy, and psychology. Most research into addiction has taken place within the disciplines of medicine, criminology,

and feminist theory

cultural-historical narratives

AI transformation of the human life-world

More than ever all visual input is merely raw material which is then subjected to digital "polishing" and "tweaking" until it attains a sheen of artificial splendor that is utterly removed from the photographic reproduction of the object and/or person originally photographed

Crisóstomo Ibarra

Though Una is very good at her job

The chapter analyses the impact of these bacterial pathogens on the biology of the host and the effect of dysbiosis in poultry

While many scholars have compared the earliest works of Daoism to language-skeptical movements in twentieth-century European philosophy and have debated to what degree early Daoism does or does not resemble these recent movements

Benita Clifford’s mother quickly moved to England

and the extent of those measures

engaging some of philosophy's most pressing issues

this study explores topics as diverse as Inka stonework