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Narratives of Addiction = Savage Usury /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Narratives of Addiction/ by Kevin McCarron.
其他題名:	Savage Usury /
作者:	McCarron, Kevin.
面頁冊數:	XXVI, 222 p. 1 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
標題:	Literature, Modern—20th century. -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88461-1
ISBN:	9783030884611

Narratives of Addiction = Savage Usury /
McCarron, Kevin.

Narratives of AddictionSavage Usury /[electronic resource] :by Kevin McCarron. - 1st ed. 2021. - XXVI, 222 p. 1 illus.online resource.

Chapter 1: ‘Define Your Terms’ -- Chapter 2: Language and Addiction -- Chapter 3: Morality and Addiction -- Chapter 4: Philosophy and Addiction -- Chapter 5: The Streets and Addiction -- Chapter 6: Prostitution and Addiction -- Chapter 7: Rehabilitation Clinics and Addiction -- Chapter 8: The Rooms: Alcoholics Anonymous -- Chapter 9: Works Cited -- Index.

Narratives of Addiction: Savage Usury is the first book to argue, in the face of more than a century’s received wisdom, that drug addiction and alcoholism are undoubtedly evidence of individual moral flaws. However, the sense of morality that underlies this book is completely severed from Christianity. Instead, it is influenced in particular by the writings of the nineteenth-century German philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Frederick Nietzsche, both of whom insisted that a genuine morality was actually incompatible with Christianity. The sequence of chapters moves from addictions on the streets, into rehab clinics, and finally into the meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. This is the first book to argue that the search for pleasure drives alcoholism and drug addiction and not the “numbing of pain”. Throughout the book I reject the claims of the medical profession, as embodied by the American Medical Association, that drug addiction and alcoholism are diseases, and further argue that they do not have the authority to tell hundreds of millions of Americans that addiction is not a moral failing. I also query throughout the book the claims of neuroscience, psychology, and the social sciences that addictions to alcohol and drugs are attributable to causes that their specific disciplines are best suited to understand. I argue that there is nothing complex about addiction: it is a simple behavioural disorder. It is the language routinely employed to discuss addiction that is not complex, just confused, and so it is also the rhetoric of addiction discourse, especially its use of simile, metaphor and euphemism, that this book evaluates. Dr Kevin McCarron is the author of two previous monographs: William Golding, and The Coincidence of Opposites, and a co-author of Frightening Fiction. He worked as a stand-up comedian for many years. He has published forty chapters in edited collections and nineteen peer-reviewed journal articles on a range of subjects including The Dead Sea Scrolls, university teaching and stand-up comedy, blasphemy, prison narratives, tattooing, prostitution, alcoholism and heroin addiction, begging and homelessness, and the Marquis de Sade.

ISBN: 9783030884611

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-88461-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature, Modern—20th century.

LC Class. No.: PN695-779

Dewey Class. No.: 809

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