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" On hashish / "
Walter Benjamin ; translated by Howard Eiland and others ; with an introductory essay by Marcus Boon
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BL
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598230
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GBA621139b427449
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| Uniform Title
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Über Haschisch.English
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| Main Entry
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Benjamin, Walter,1892-1940
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On hashish /\ Walter Benjamin ; translated by Howard Eiland and others ; with an introductory essay by Marcus Boon
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, Mass. :: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,, 2006
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xiii, 180 p. :: ill. ;; 20 cm
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9780674022218 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0674022211 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| Notes
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Translated from the German
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-170) and index
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| Abstract
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"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
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Benjamin, Walter,1892-1940-- Drug use
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Authors, German-- 20th century-- Drug use
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Hashish-- Psychological aspects
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| LC Classification
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PT2603.E455Z5743 2006
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