Bruce Wilshire

Wild Hunger (eBook, ePUB)

The Primal Roots of Modern Addiction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why is it that even amidst affluence and power, our culture is plagued by a variety of addictions? In this pioneering work, Bruce Wilshire searches for answers by giving serious attention to our genetic legacy from our hunter-gatherer ancestors as well as to the unique ways we adapt to our environment through the practice of science and the creation of art and cities. The work considers remedies for specific addictions-including drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, and gambling-suggesting that wilderness exploration, in the arts, myths, and ceremonies, can help us rediscover what it means to be human creatures. Bringing together the insights of philosophy, religion, cultural anthropology, behavioral biology, and the vast socio-medical literature on addiction, Wilshire ingeniously explores the limits of our adaptive capacity and the costs of depleting the natural regenerative functions of the body.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461647164
• Artikelnr.: 39412860

Autorenporträt

Bruce W. Wilshire is professor of philosophy at Rutgers University. He is the author of numerous books, including Role Playing and Identity.

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