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“Perkins-McVey’s Intoxicated Ways of Knowing demonstrates that psychotropic substances have not only been a constant presence in modern life, but have played a critical, yet largely overlooked, role in the mainstream development of German philosophy, experimental physiology, psychology, and medicine. Through fascinating case studies of Kant, Schelling, Kraepelin, Freud, Nietzsche, Weber, and others, Perkins-McVey develops a compelling thesis that intoxicants provided the indispensable condition for the making of the modern biological subject.” -- Robert Brain, author of “The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe”

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Matthew Perkins-McVey is assistant professor of the history and philosophy of science and medicine at Technion Israel Institute of Technology.

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