عنوان

On hashish /

(Number (ISBN

0674022211 (pbk. : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780674022218 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Country Code

bnb

Number

b427449

Title Proper

On hashish /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Walter Benjamin ; translated by Howard Eiland and others ; with an introductory essay by Marcus Boon

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, Mass. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2006

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 180 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

20 cm

Text of Note

Translated from the German

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-170) and index

Text of Note

"Walter Benjamin's posthumously published collection of writings on hashish is a detailed blueprint for a book that was never written - a "truly exceptional book about hashish," as Benjamin describes it in a letter to his friend Gershom Scholem. A series of "protocols of drug experiments," written by himself and his co-participants in the years 1927-1934, together with short prose pieces that he published during his lifetime, On Hashish provides a portrait of Benjamin, venturesome as ever at the end of the Weimar Republic, and of his unique form of thought." "Consciously placing himself in a tradition of literary drug-connoisseurs from Baudelaire to Hermann Hesse, Benjamin looked to hashish and other drugs for an initiation into what he called "profane illumination." At issue here is a way of seeing, a new connection to the ordinary world. Under the influence of hashish, as time and space becomes inseparable, what Benjamin, in his study of Surrealism, calls "image space" comes vividly to life in this philosophical immersion in the sensuous." "This English-language edition of On Hashish features a section of supplementary materials - drawn from Benjamin's essays, letters, and sketches. A foreword by Howard Eiland discusses the leading motifs in Benjamin's reflections on intoxication." --Book Jacket

General Material Designation

Über Haschisch.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Benjamin, Walter,1892-1940-- Drug use

Authors, German-- 20th century-- Drug use

Hashish-- Psychological aspects

Class number

Book number

Benjamin, Walter,1892-1940

Date of Transaction

20070312102733.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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