Description: Existential Drinker, Hardcover by Earnshaw, Steven, ISBN 0719099617, ISBN-13 9780719099618, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Drinking to excess has been a striking problem for industrial and post-industrial societies - who is responsible when an individual opts for a slow suicide? The causes of such drinking have often been blamed on genes, moral weakness, 'disease' (addiction), hedonism, and Romantic illusion. Yet there is another reason: the drinker may act with sincere philosophical intent, exploring the edges of self, consciousness, will, ethics, authenticity and finitude. Beginning with Jack London's John Barleycorn: alcoholic memoirs th goes on to cover novels such as Jean Rhys's Good morning, midnight, Malcolm Lowry's Under the volcano, Charles Jackson's The lost weekend and John O'Brien's Leaving Las Vegas, and less familiar works such as Frederick Exley's A fan's notes, Venedikt Yerofeev's Moscow-Petushki, and A. L. Kennedy's Paradise.
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Book Title: Existential Drinker
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Existential Drinker
Language: English
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Movements / Existentialism, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2018
Item Weight: 22 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Steven Earnshaw
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
