The Existential drinker
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The Existential drinker

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
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The Existential drinker

About this book

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.

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Index
AA see Alcoholics Anonymous
‘abandonment’ 62, 87, 102, 140, 148–54, 178, 179, 182, 191n.9
absurdity 39n.81, 136–46, 177, 179, 208n.22
accidie 20, 61, 139
addiction 1, 7–8, 15, 29, 32n.7, 34n.26, 36n.45, 36n.46, 49, 64n.38, 101, 103, 111, 121, 127, 154, 198, 225, 234, 239, 242, 245
Adorno, Theodor 40n.89
adultery 133n.20
Aho, Kevin 96n.24
Albany 198, 206n.1
Albee, Edward 37n.53
‘alcohol dependence syndrome’ 34n.27, 49
alcoholics 7–8, 12, 18, 21–2, 26, 28, 31, 33n.15, 36n.45, 36n.46, 41n.98, 64n.38, 67–9, 78n.14, 98, 99, 101, 103, 106, 107–8, 109, 113, 114n.17, 117n.60, 121, 133n.17, 144, 147n.37, 161–2, 165, 167, 173n.12, 199, 208n.22, 212, 213–14, 219, 222n.9, 224, 228, 241, 242
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 7–8, 12, 18, 25, 34n.26, 103–4, 106, 114n.6, 117n.60, 161, 170, 183, 234, 240, 241
alcoholism 7–8, 12, 21–2, 26, 28, 29, 34n.26, 35n.28, 62n.2, 64n.38, 68, 75, 79n.24, 98,...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Figures
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction
  11. I Whiffs and gleams
  12. II The Existential drinkers
  13. III Enough: attic, Vegas, paradise
  14. Conclusion
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index