Bruce Wilshire

Wild Hunger

The Primal Roots of Modern Addiction

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Produktbeschreibung

This pioneering work explores why our culture is plagued by addictions-by giving serious attention to our genetic legacy from our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9780847689682
• ISBN-10: 0847689689
• Artikelnr.: 21896411

Autorenporträt

Bruce Wilshire

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Prologue: Hunger for Ecstatic Connectedness
Part 2 I NATURE'S REGENERATIVE CYCLES
Chapter 3 1 Ecstasy Deprivation and Addictive "Remedies"
Chapter 4 2 Rediscovering Space, Time, Body, Self
Chapter 5 3 Circular Power Returning into Itself
Chapter 6 4 The Intimate Otherness of Body-Self's World: Addiction as
Frightened Response
Part 7 II ADDICTION: CIRCULAR POWER SHORT-CIRCUITED
Chapter 8 5 The More Than Merely Human: Hunger to Belong
Chapter 9 6 Medical Materialism and the Fragmented Grasp of Addiction
Chapter 10 7 Possession, Addiction, Fragmentation: Is a Healing Community
Possible?
Chapter 11 8 Smoking As Ritual, Smoking As Addiction
Chapter 12 9 Body, Nose, Viscera, Earth
Chapter 13 10 Art and Truth
Chapter 14 III HARMONY WITH NATURE
Chapter 15 11 Mother Nature: Circular Power Returning into Itself
Chapter 16 12 Technology As Ecstasy: How to Deal with It?
Chapter 17 Conclusion: The Awesome World
Chapter 18 Sources
Chapter 19 Acknowledgments
Chapter 20 Index
Chapter 21 About the Author