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What Hashish Did To Walter Benjamin

Mind-Altering Essays on Marijuana
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
190 Seiten
Englisch
Khargala Presserschienen am20.11.2015
What is it like to be high on marijuana? Can a cannabis high help to remember long gone events, to fuel your imagination, to work creatively, to come to introspective and other insights, to empathically understand others, and to personally grow? How much did cannabis inspire outstanding thinkers, artists and musicians like Charles Baudelaire, Rudyard Kipling, Walter Benjamin, Billie Holiday, Diego Rivera, John Lennon, Carl Sagan, Hal Ashby, and so many others? And how much did the marijuana high positively transfom our society?"What Hashish Did To Walter Benjamin - Mind-Altering Essays on Cannabis" is a collection of 20 groundbreaking neurophilosophically inspired essays on the astounding positive potential of the cannabis high. The essays summarize more than ten years of Marincolos research and are written for a wide audience. This deep new exploration of the marijuana high as an altered state of consiousness addresses educated marijuana users and their relatives, medical cannabis professionals and patients, as well as neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers interested in the subject of altered states of consciousness.mehr

Produkt

KlappentextWhat is it like to be high on marijuana? Can a cannabis high help to remember long gone events, to fuel your imagination, to work creatively, to come to introspective and other insights, to empathically understand others, and to personally grow? How much did cannabis inspire outstanding thinkers, artists and musicians like Charles Baudelaire, Rudyard Kipling, Walter Benjamin, Billie Holiday, Diego Rivera, John Lennon, Carl Sagan, Hal Ashby, and so many others? And how much did the marijuana high positively transfom our society?"What Hashish Did To Walter Benjamin - Mind-Altering Essays on Cannabis" is a collection of 20 groundbreaking neurophilosophically inspired essays on the astounding positive potential of the cannabis high. The essays summarize more than ten years of Marincolos research and are written for a wide audience. This deep new exploration of the marijuana high as an altered state of consiousness addresses educated marijuana users and their relatives, medical cannabis professionals and patients, as well as neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers interested in the subject of altered states of consciousness.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-9817712-0-6
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2015
Erscheinungsdatum20.11.2015
Seiten190 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 11 mm
Gewicht284 g
Artikel-Nr.36265418

Autor

Dr. phil. Sebastián Marincolo is a former student of the philosophers William G. Lycan, Simon Blackburn, and Manfred Frank. His research focuses on the philosophy of mind, neurocognition, and on altered states of mind. Marincolo has published various articles on the marijuana high, co-edited bewusstseinserweiterungen ("mind expansions"), an issue of the German internetzine "parapluie", and published three books on the marijuana high: the study "High. Insights on Marijuana" (Dogearpublishing, Indiana, USA, 2010), the essay collection, "High. Das positive Potential von Marijuana" (in German, Klett Cotta/Tropen, Stuttgart, Germany, 2013), which contains his macro art series "The Art of Cannabis", and the essay collection "What Hashish Did To Walter Benjamin" (Khargala Press 2015).Marincolo also worked with marijuana expert Harvard Associate Prof. Emeritus Lester Grinspoon on a book project. For more than five years he was a creative director and consultant for one of the biggest foundations in Germany and has more than 25 years of experience as a freelance photographer. His art photography from New York City, Rio de Janeiro, Bali and other places has been shown in various exhibitions and art galleries in Germany and the U.S. He is currently living in Stuttgart, Germany, and works as a freelance writer, creative consultant and photographer.