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Drunk the Night Before: An Anatomy of Intoxication

Author: Marty Roth

This invigorating work traces the cultural history of convivial drinking before the concept of addiction overshadowed intoxication's reputation as a creative, philosophical, and spiritual force. Marty Roth's Drunk the Night Before illustrates altered consciousness from myth to contemporary life, laying bare the behaviors and beliefs, sacred and secular, invested in intoxication. From the days of antiquity to the twentieth century, Roth follows the often veiled language of intoxication through religion and aesthetics, poetry and art, popular festivals and film. In this sweeping work, he examines the cultural roots of love potions and the fountain of youth, drunkenness in Hollywood cinema, the religious concept of a spiritual high versus the condemnation of intoxication. Roth reinvigorates the currently rebuffed connection between intoxication and artistic creativity, taking up by turn the poet Anacreon and the canon of drink poetry - from classical Greek to the European lyric, Euripides' Bacchae and the figure of Socrates in Plato's Symposium, the heavy investment of Western philosophy in intoxication, and the concepts of the carnivalesque in Friedrich Nietzsche and Mikhail Bakhtin. At once deeply erudite and irresistibly congenial, this encyclopedic work makes critical sense of the long history of alcohol as potion and poison, as pharmakon and catalyst, revealing altered states as the hidden thread in the story of sensation and Western cultural consciousness.

Table of Contents:

1	The mysteries of intoxication	1
2	Drink poetry; or, the art of feeling very, very good	13
3	Double Dionysus : ambiguities in the discourse of intoxication	37
4	Socrates undrunk : literature writing philosophy in Plato's Symposium	47
5	"Out, loathed med'cine! O hated potion, hence!" : the magic of literary drinks	59
6	Spiritual intoxication and the metaphorics of Heaven	77
7	Drinking in style : a Horatian aesthetic	99
8	Carnival, creativity, and the sublimation of drunkenness	139

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Herbal Remedy Gardens: 38 Plans for Your Health and Well-Being

Author: Dorie Byers

Using simple organic gardening techniques, anyone can grow a healing garden of more than 20 medicinal herbs like garlic, dill, peppermint, and echinacea. Readers will also find recipes, tips for using medicinal herbs, and plans for gardens customized for specific health requirements.