On Hashish
Benjamin, Walter
9780674022218
ISBN 13: 9780674022218
Publication Date: 2006
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If one were to draw up a list of writers, living or dead, who seemed least likely to make the best-seller lists in 2006, the revered philosopher, essayist and critic Walter Benjamin, who committed suicide in 1940 while fleeing the Nazis, would have to be near the top. But don't count him out..."On Hashish" [is] a slim volume of Benjamin's little-known writings about his occasional drug use...[and] is mostly culled from his notes for a book he planned to write. Benjamin wasn't always fond of hashish's effects--he referred to the drug as "poison"--but he did experience an ample amount of what he called "profane illumination." His notes have the making of a cerebral dorm-room stoner classic. -- Dwight Garner "New York Times Book Review" (03/12/2006)
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Book Description: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2006. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 190 x 140 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. 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 between 1927 and 1934, together with short prose pieces that he published during his lifetime, "On Hashish" provides a peculiarly intimate 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, as everywhere in Benjamin's work, is a new way of seeing, a new connection to the ordinary world. Under the influence of hashish, as time and space become inseparable, experiences become subtly stratified and resonant: we inhabit more than one plane in time.What Benjamin, in his contemporaneous 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 - relating to hashish use, as well as a reminiscence by his friend Jean Selz, which concerns a night of opium smoking in Ibiza. A preface by Howard Eiland discusses the leading motifs of Benjamin's reflections on intoxication. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780674022218 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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