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02509aam a2200265 i 4500 001 8EBE8198383811EFBB58162234ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240702010121 008 240508t20242023ctua e b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0300276095 020 $a 9780300276091 035 $a (OCoLC)1433026628 040 $a NAM $b eng $c NAM $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d IFK $d SILO 100 1 $a Jay, Mike, $d 1959 December 14- $e author. $4 aut 245 10 $a Psychonauts : $b drugs and the making of the modern mind / $c Mike Jay. 250 $a [First paperback edition] 264 1 $a New Haven ; $b Yale University Press ; $c [2024] 300 $a xii, 359 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 20 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-347) and index. 505 00 $t Epilogue: After drugs. $t Part I. The new accelerator: drugs and mental enhancement. The elixir of life -- $t Prosthetic gods -- $t Part II. Beyond the veil: drugs and the limits of consciousness. A world of pure experience -- $t The unseen region -- $t Part III. Saturnalia of the senses: drugs and the creative imagination. Tales of the hashish eaters -- $t Extasia, fantasia and illuminati -- $t Part IV. Lost and found. A sin, a crime, a vice or a disease? -- $t Twice-born -- $t Epilogue: After drugs. 520 $a "Until the twentieth century, scientists investigating the effects of drugs on the mind did so by experimenting on themselves. Vivid descriptions of drug experiences sparked insights across the mind sciences, pharmacology, medicine, and philosophy. Accounts in journals and literary fiction inspired a fascinated public to make their own experiments--in scientific demonstrations, on exotic travels, at literary salons, and in occult rituals. But after 1900 drugs were increasingly viewed as a social problem, and the long tradition of self-experimentation began to disappear. From Sigmund Freud's experiments with cocaine to William James's epiphany on nitrous oxide, Mike Jay brilliantly recovers a lost intellectual tradition of drug-taking that fed the birth of psychology, the discovery of the unconscious, and the emergence of modernism. Today, as we embrace novel cognitive enhancers and psychedelics, the experiments of the original psychonauts reveal the deep influence of mind-altering drugs on Western science, philosophy, and culture." -- $c From cover. 710 2 $a Yale University Press, $e publisher. $4 pbl 941 $a 1 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20240702011827.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8EBE8198383811EFBB58162234ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search