Medusa' blood: Derrida's recreational pharmacology and the rhetoric of drugs

Boothroyd, Dave (1996) Medusa' blood: Derrida's recreational pharmacology and the rhetoric of drugs. Imprimatur: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, 1 (2/3). ISSN 1360-9017

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Abstract

Exploration of the relation between Derrida's reading of Plato's Pharmakon and the undecidability of the place of drugs in contemporary culture. References to Frazer's Golden Bough and the scapegoating of the drug user.

Keywords:Derrida, Plato, Writing, Memory
Subjects:L Social studies > L600 Anthropology
V Historical and Philosophical studies > V500 Philosophy
Divisions:College of Arts > Lincoln School of Film & Media > Lincoln School of Film & Media (Media)
ID Code:14932
Deposited On:14 Sep 2014 19:46

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