Addresses 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.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION Anna Alexander and Mark S. Roberts PART I. PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY REFLECTIONS ON ADDICTION 1. THE RHETORIC OF DRUGS Jacques Derrida 2. NIETZSCHE'S DIONYSIAN HIGH: Morphin' with Endorphins David B. Allison 3. ARIADNE'S THREAD: Walter Benjamin's Hashish Passages Gary Shapiro 4. PROFANE HALLUCINATIONS: From The Arcades Project to the Surrealists Alina Clej 5. HEIDEGGER'S CRAVING: Being-on-Schelling David L. Clark 6. TRAUMA, ADDICTION, AND TEMPORAL BULIMIA IN MADAME BOVARY Elissa Marder 7. BAUDELAIRE, ARTAUD, AND THE AESTHETICS OF INTOXICATION Allen S. Weiss 8. "JUNK" AND THE OTHER: Burroughs and Levinas on Drugs Jeffrey T. Nealon PART II. SOCIO-CULTURAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON ADDICTION 9. SOCIALLY SIGNIFICANT DRUGS Félix Guattari 10. FREUD'S PHARMACY: Cocaine and the Corporeal Unconscious Anna Alexander 11. SCHREBER'S ECSTASIES,OR WHO EVER LISTENED TO DANIEL PAUL? Zvi Lothane 12. SMOKE SCREEN: The Cultural Meaning of Women's Smoking Lorraine Greaves 13. LOVE JUNKIES Alphonso Lingis 14. POSSESSION, ADDICTION, FRAGMENTATION:Is a Healing Community Possible? Bruce Wilshire 15. GAMBLING AND ADDICTION Jon Elster 16. ADDICTS WITHOUT DRUGS: The Media Addiction Mark S. Roberts 17. THE DRUG ADDICT IN ABSENTIA: Hidden Populations of Illicit Drug Users and the Gaze of Power John Fitzgerald CONTRIBUTORS INDEX

"This book does something that few works on addiction have done since the 1970s: take seriously the drug-induced or modulated experience—not just as meaningful to drug users and their immediate social groups, but as revealing something important about existence, consciousness, and subjectivity. The writers in this volume have made a new incursion into this area of exploration." — Medical Humanities Review"This book unveils a latent but profoundly significant—and largely ignored—dimension of modernity, namely, the relationship to addiction. The contributors focus important new light on a dimension of modern life that is omnipresent and at the same time profoundly neglected. This is crucial scholarship—applied philosophy—and powerful testimony that philosophy has much to say about everyday life." — Michael Dorland, Carleton University"This is a useful, multifaceted collection foregrounding a phenomenon that is too little examined from a philosophical or theoretical point of view—if anything deserves attention in the growing literature devoted to cultural criticism, it is addiction." — Babette E. Babich, author of Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science