Cigarettes

[phildow]

Chain smoked so many cigarettes Saturday night and Sunday morning that I haven't taken a single drag for 36 hours. For the most part, I haven't wanted to, and when I have, the desire has been slight enough to avoid the Tabak. I may have ended up quitting, although I imagine I'll continue to smoke every once in a while. Completely unintended

Comments

[yammerskooner]

Sounds like you're hooked.
Time to read Heidegger on the concept of addiction?

[phildow]

Nah, more like I was hooked. I haven't smoked for two days, and I doubt I'll smoke today either. I smoked myself clean instead of quitting.

Heidegger's got something on addiction? Now I wonder how the hell he relates that to Being?

[yammerskooner]

Addiction as an existential modality of Dasein, silly. More of the more clear examples of how the subject's being is outside itself.

[phildow]

So did Heidegger do any drugs? I heard Sartre tried Mescalin. I mean, if Heidegger is investigating how the subject is already beside or with or next to (insert better preposition here) objects, already outside itself, wrapped up with a world, then he ought to be interested in certain drug experiences.

Do you know if anyone's attempted a phenomenology of various highs and ended up producing a lucid, insightful work that isn't all cracked out?