Friday, July 3, 2009





This book was published in 1997. It is still available. It does not exist in an English translation. But it was translated into German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.



This is the English translation of a book, originally written in French (Hachette, 1990), which is not any longer available in that language.
This is the Italian translation of a book originally written in French (Le Plaisir et le Mal. Philosophie de la Drogue, Odile Jacob, 1997). This Italian edition is not available any longer. It is from the Introduction and Conclusion of this volume that a professor of philosophy in the University of Venice, Italy (Umberto Galimberti) copied circa five pages, notes and all. The case transpired in the Italian media, in the Spring and Summer of 2008.