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Pharmakon
Michael Anthony Rinella
其他書名
Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens
出版
Lexington Books
, 2010
主題
History / Ancient / General
History / Ancient / Greece
History / Europe / Greece
History / Social History
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Philosophy / Social
Psychology / Psychopathology / Addiction
ISBN
0739146866
9780739146866
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8OJypsPwmIYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens
examines the emerging concern for controlling states of psychological ecstasy in the history of western thought, focusing on ancient Greece (c. 750 - 146 BCE), particularly the Classical Period (c. 500 - 336 BCE) and especially the dialogues of the Athenian philosopher Plato (427 - 347 BCE).
Employing a diverse array of materials ranging from literature, philosophy, medicine, botany, pharmacology, religion, magic, and law,
Pharmakon
fundamentally reframes the conceptual context of how we read and interpret Plato's dialogues. Michael A. Rinella demonstrates how the power and truth claims of philosophy, repeatedly likened to a
pharmakon
, opposes itself to the cultural authority of a host of other occupations in ancient Greek society who derived their powers from, or likened their authority to, some
pharmakon
. These included Dionysian and Eleusinian religion, physicians and other healers, magicians and other magic workers, poets, sophists, rhetoricians, as well as others.
Accessible to the general reader, yet challenging to the specialist,
Pharmakon
is a comprehensive examination of the place of drugs in ancient thought that will compel the reader to understand Plato in a new way.