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Beschreibung
Renowned philosopher and former addict Owen Flanagan provides a powerful, far reaching examination of addiction. His is the first book to integrate the experience of addiction and the myriad social, cultural, psychological, and physiological factors that create it. Flanagan's holistic analysis also discusses the drawbacks of conventional theories of addiction and pressing questions relating to public policy, harm reduction, and recovery--offering a probing and empathetic view of what it is to be an addict.
Renowned philosopher and former addict Owen Flanagan provides a powerful, far reaching examination of addiction. His is the first book to integrate the experience of addiction and the myriad social, cultural, psychological, and physiological factors that create it. Flanagan's holistic analysis also discusses the drawbacks of conventional theories of addiction and pressing questions relating to public policy, harm reduction, and recovery--offering a probing and empathetic view of what it is to be an addict.
Über den Autor
Owen Flanagan is an internationally acclaimed philosopher of mind, consciousness, ethics, and comparative philosophy and author of 12 books translated into many languages. He has lectured on every continent except Antarctica, which he has nonetheless visited. Flanagan taught for 16 years at Wellesley College and for 30 years at Duke University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Note to Reader

  • Chapter 1 The addict's point of view

  • Chapter 2 What is it like to be an addict?

  • Chapter 3 Explaining addiction

  • Chapter 4 Identity and addiction

  • Chapter 5 Willing addiction

  • Chapter 6 The shame of addiction

  • Chapter 7 The phenomenal authority of Alcoholics Anonymous

  • Chapter 8 Hope and addiction

  • References

  • Acknowledgments

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780199388929
ISBN-10: 019938892X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Flanagan, Owen
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
OUP USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 213 x 146 x 31 mm
Von/Mit: Owen Flanagan
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.04.2025
Gewicht: 0,446 kg
Artikel-ID: 128786170

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