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Undergraduate Module Descriptor
PHL3117: Philosophy and Psychedelics
This module descriptor refers to the 2023/4 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.
We will read chapters from Sjöstedt-Hughes, P. & Hauskeller, C. (eds.), Philosophy and Psychedelics, Bloomsbury 2022
And supplement it with texts such as:
Baier, K. (2022) High Mysticism: On the interplay between the psychedelic movement and academic study of mysticism
Benjamin, W. (1927–34) On Hashish
Foucault, M. (1970) Theatrum Philosophicum
Gibson, L. (2013) A Whiteheadian Perspective on Psychedelic Experience and Research: An Update
Hofmann, A. (1979) LSD: My Problem Child
Huxley, A. (1954) The Doors of Perception
James, W. (1902) The Varieties of Religious Experience
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
Pollan, M. (2018) How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Russell, B. (1910) Mysticism and Logic
Thompson, S. J. (2014) From ‘Rausch’ to Rebellion: Walter Benjamin’s On Hashish and the Aesthetic Dimensions of Prohibitionist Realism
Ward, R. H. (1957) A Drug-Taker's Notes