Ebook: Writing On Drugs

Sadie Plant Traces the History of Drugs and drug use through the work of some of our most revered, and infamous, writers. Rather than exploring drug use as an avenue to spiritual transcendence, Plant focuses on the way that drugs themselves make precise, recognizable interventions in consciousness, in cultural life, in politics. She argues that the use, production, and trafficking of drugs -- narcotics, stimulants, and hallucinogens -- have shaped some of the era's most fundamental philosophies and provided much of its economic wealth.