Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Existential DrinkerCondition: NewEAN: 9780719099618ISBN: 9780719099618Publisher: Manchester University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/05/2018Item Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Steven EarnshawLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0719099617Description: 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 the book 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Literary CriticismItem Width: 21mmItem Weight: 621gRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Existential Drinker
Title: The Existential Drinker
EAN: 9780719099618
ISBN: 9780719099618
Release Date: 10/05/2018
Release Year: 2018
ISBN-10: 0719099617
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Existential Drinker
Language: English
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Movements / Existentialism, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22 Oz
Author: Steven Earnshaw
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
