Drinking to Get Drunk: Pleasure, Creativity, and Social Harmony in Greece and China
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-13-2011
Abstract
This essay examines the multifaceted roles of drinking parties in early Greece and in medieval China. It takes as paradigm examples descriptions of ritual intoxication in Plato's Laws and in the poetry of Ouyang Xiu and Mei Yaochen, arguing that these divergent cultural and philosophical traditions can be both related and made distinct through concepts of pleasure, creativity, and social harmony.
Publication Title
Comparative and Continental Philosophy
First Page
243
Last Page
253
Citation Information
Mattice, Sarah, "Drinking to Get Drunk: Pleasure, Creativity, and Social Harmony in Greece and China" (2011). UNF Faculty Research and Scholarship. 6.
https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/unf_faculty_publications/6
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