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Why is it that even amidst affluence and power, our culture is plagued by a variety of addictions? In this pioneering work, Bruce Wilshire searches for answers by giving serious attention to our genetic legacy from our hunter-gatherer ancestors as well as to the unique ways we adapt to our environment through the practice of science and the creation of art and cities. The work considers remedies for specific addictions-including drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, and gambling-suggesting that wilderness exploration, in the arts, myths, and ceremonies, can help us rediscover what it means to be human creatures. Bringing together the insights of philosophy, religion, cultural anthropology, behavioral biology, and the vast socio-medical literature on addiction, Wilshire ingeniously explores the limits of our adaptive capacity and the costs of depleting the natural regenerative functions of the body.
Published | 27 Oct 1999 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 304 |
ISBN | 9780847689682 |
Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Dimensions | 229 x 150 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
This book is absolutely on the cutting edge-even ahead of its time. It brings us an entirely new way of understanding addiction, one of the major curses of industrial society in the late twentieth century. After Wild Hunger, it will be very difficult to think of addiction as a purely medical-neurological problem.
David Ehrenfeld, Rutgers University
Footnotes provide interesting information and lead the reader to the other source.
D.L. Loers, Willamette University, Choice Reviews
Literate and spiritually refreshing.
Barbara Fulton, The Journal Of Addiction and Mental Health
The book is an interesting indicator of current trends in fin-de-siecle America.
Robin Room, National Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research, Oslo, Norway, Addiction
An impassioned plea for rediscovering our primal need for ecstatic involvement in the world. . . will speak to a wide audience.
Publishers Weekly
Wilshire gives insight into the nature of the pseudo-ecstasy of addiction...and how a new awakening can come about.
Thomas Berry, Author of The Dream of the Earth
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