Postgraduate Module Descriptor


PHLM014: Philosophy and Psychedelics

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Key text: Hauskeller, C., & Sjöstedt-Hughes, P. (forthcoming) Philosophy and Psychedelics (London: Bloomsbury)

 

Baier, K. (forthcoming) High Mysticism: On the interplay between the psychedelic movement and academic study of mysticism

Benjamin, W. (1927–34) On Hashish

Boothroyd, D. (2006) Culture on Drugs: Narco-cultural Studies of High Modernity

De Quincey, T. (1821) Confession of an English Opium Eater

Hofmann, A. (1979) LSD: My Problem Child

Huxley, A. (1956) Heaven and Hell

James, W. (1902) The Varieties of Religious Experience

James, W. (1897) Note to ‘On Some Hegelisms’, in: The Will to Believe

Jay, M. (2019) Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic

Lundborg, P. (2014) Note Towards a Definition of a Psychedelic Philosophy

Partridge, C. (2018) High Culture: Drugs, Mysticism, and the Pursuit of Transcendence in the Modern World

Shanon, B. (2002) The Antipodes of the Mind

Shulgin, A. & Shulgin, A. (1990) Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story

Suzuki, D. T. (1971) Religion and Drugs

Thompson, S. J. (2014) From ‘Rausch’ to Rebellion: Walter Benjamin’s On Hashish and the Aesthetic Dimensions of Prohibitionist Realism

Ustinova, Y. (2018) Divine Mania: Alterations of Consciousness in Ancient Greece

Zaehner, R. C. (1972) Zen, Drugs, and Mysticism