Wild Hunger

The Primal Roots of Modern Addiction

Wild Hunger cover

Wild Hunger

The Primal Roots of Modern Addiction

Quantity
In stock
$26.99 RRP $29.99 Website price saving $3.00 (10%)

This product is usually dispatched within 2-4 weeks

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Prologue: Hunger for Ecstatic Connectedness
Part 2 I NATURE'S REGENERATIVE CYCLES
Chapter 3 1 Ecstasy Deprivation and Addictive "Remedies"
Chapter 4 2 Rediscovering Space, Time, Body, Self
Chapter 5 3 Circular Power Returning into Itself
Chapter 6 4 The Intimate Otherness of Body-Self's World: Addiction as Frightened Response
Part 7 II ADDICTION: CIRCULAR POWER SHORT-CIRCUITED
Chapter 8 5 The More Than Merely Human: Hunger to Belong
Chapter 9 6 Medical Materialism and the Fragmented Grasp of Addiction
Chapter 10 7 Possession, Addiction, Fragmentation: Is a Healing Community Possible?
Chapter 11 8 Smoking As Ritual, Smoking As Addiction
Chapter 12 9 Body, Nose, Viscera, Earth
Chapter 13 10 Art and Truth
Chapter 14 III HARMONY WITH NATURE
Chapter 15 11 Mother Nature: Circular Power Returning into Itself
Chapter 16 12 Technology As Ecstasy: How to Deal with It?
Chapter 17 Conclusion: The Awesome World
Chapter 18 Sources
Chapter 19 Acknowledgments
Chapter 20 Index
Chapter 21 About the Author

Product details

Published 27 Oct 1999
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 304
ISBN 9780847689682
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 229 x 150 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Related Titles

Get 30% off in the May sale - for one week only

Environment: Staging