Pharmakon : Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens

By (author) Rinella, Michael A.

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.

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[目次]

  • Introduction - The Pharmakon, Ecstasy, and Identity Part I. Plato and the Politics of Intoxication Chapter 1: Wine and the Symposion Chapter 2: The Symposion and the Question of Stasis Chapter 3: Plato's Reformulation of the Symposion Part II: The Pharmakon and the Defense of Socrates Chapter 4: Drugs, Epic Poetry, and Religion Chapter 5: Socrates Accused Chapter 6: Socrates Rehabilitated Part III. Plato through the Prism of the Pharmakon Chapter 7: Medicine, Drugs, and Somatic Regimen Chapter 8: Magic, Drugs, and Noetic Regimen Chapter 9: Speech, Drugs, and Discursive Regimen Chapter 10: Philosophy's Pharmacy Afterword: Towards a New Ethics of the Pharmakon

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書名 Pharmakon : Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens
著作者等 Rinella, Michael A.
書名別名 Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens
出版元 Lexington Books
刊行年月 2011.11.23
ページ数 358p
大きさ H230 x W154
ISBN 9780739146873
言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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