Wade Simeon
Wade Simeon - Foucault In California A True Story - Wherein The Great French Philosopher Drops Acid In The Valley Of Death - Paperback
Wade Simeon - Foucault In California A True Story - Wherein The Great French Philosopher Drops Acid In The Valley Of Death - Paperback
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Description: A wildly entertaining and masterly memoir (Times Literary Supplement) now in paperback In The Lives of Michel Foucault David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking nostalgically of an unforgettable evening on LSD in carefully prepared doses in the desert night with delicious music and nice people. This came to pass in 1975, when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade ostensibly to guest - lecture at the Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor but in truth to explore what he called the Valley of Death. Led by Wade and Wade's partner Michael Stoneman Foucault experimented with psychotropic drugs for the first time; by morning he was crying and proclaiming that he knew Truth. Foucault in California is Wade's firsthand account of that long weekend. Felicitous and often humorous prose vaults readers headlong into the erudite and subversive circles of the Claremont intelligentsia: parties in Wade's bungalow intensive dialogues between Foucault and his disciples at a Taoist utopia in the Angeles Forest (whose denizens call Foucault Country Joe ); and of course the fabled synesthetic acid trip on the multihued slopes of the Artist's Palette at Death Valley set to the strains of Bach and Stockhausen. Part search for higher consciousness part bacchanal this book chronicles a young man's burgeoning friendship with one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers.
Title: Foucault In California A True Story - Wherein The Great French Philosopher Drops Acid In The Valley Of Death
Author(s): Wade Simeon
Publisher: Heyday Books
Barcode: 9781597145374
Pages: 152 Pages, Over 300 Full-Color Maps And Illustrations
Publication Date: 6/1/2021
Category: History Of Ideas
Description: A wildly entertaining and masterly memoir (Times Literary Supplement) now in paperback In The Lives of Michel Foucault David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking nostalgically of an unforgettable evening on LSD in carefully prepared doses in the desert night with delicious music and nice people. This came to pass in 1975, when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade ostensibly to guest - lecture at the Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor but in truth to explore what he called the Valley of Death. Led by Wade and Wade's partner Michael Stoneman Foucault experimented with psychotropic drugs for the first time; by morning he was crying and proclaiming that he knew Truth. Foucault in California is Wade's firsthand account of that long weekend. Felicitous and often humorous prose vaults readers headlong into the erudite and subversive circles of the Claremont intelligentsia: parties in Wade's bungalow intensive dialogues between Foucault and his disciples at a Taoist utopia in the Angeles Forest (whose denizens call Foucault Country Joe ); and of course the fabled synesthetic acid trip on the multihued slopes of the Artist's Palette at Death Valley set to the strains of Bach and Stockhausen. Part search for higher consciousness part bacchanal this book chronicles a young man's burgeoning friendship with one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers.
Title: Foucault In California A True Story - Wherein The Great French Philosopher Drops Acid In The Valley Of Death
Author(s): Wade Simeon
Publisher: Heyday Books
Barcode: 9781597145374
Pages: 152 Pages, Over 300 Full-Color Maps And Illustrations
Publication Date: 6/1/2021
Category: History Of Ideas
