by Antonio Escohotado · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420603933
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«Historia de las drogas, t. 2» is the historical essay by Antonio Escohotado, published by Alianza in paperback, with 440 pages, in Spanish.
The essay examines intoxication as a cultural phenomenon, from ancient civilizations to the welfare state. Escohotado relates types of intoxication to cultural models and analyzes the genesis of the current conflict over drugs from an interdisciplinary perspective: religion, medicine, artistic creation, and social control.
Second volume of the work Historia general de las drogas, published in the El libro de bolsillo collection by Alianza in 1995.
It will interest readers of history and essays, as well as those seeking context for the current debate on drugs.
Antonio Escohotado Espinosa, commonly called Antonio Escohotado, was a Spanish philosopher, jurist, essayist and university professor. His life's work primarily focused on law, philosophy and sociology, yet extended to many other disciplines. Escohotado gained public renown for his research on drugs and for his well-known anti-prohibitionist positions. One of his best known works is The General History of Drugs. The leitmotif of his work is, in the same way, an affirmation of freedom as an antidote to fear or the constraints that push the human being towards all kinds of servitude. His thought fits into the framework of libertarian liberalism.
