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Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Adonis and the Alphabet and Other Essays written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Adonis and the Alphabet written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Claire John Eschelbach
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Aldous Huxley written by Claire John Eschelbach and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cynthia Carson Bisbee
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773556028
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Psychedelic Prophets written by Cynthia Carson Bisbee and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) was the author of nearly fifty books and numerous essays, best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World. Humphry Osmond (1917–2004) was a British-trained psychiatrist interested in the biological nature of mental illness and the potential for psychedelic drugs to treat psychoses, especially schizophrenia. In 1953, Huxley sent an appreciative note to Osmond about an article he and a colleague had published on their experiments with mescaline, which inspired an initial meeting and decade-long correspondence. This critical edition provides the complete Huxley-Osmond correspondence, chronicling an exchange between two brilliant thinkers who explored such subjects as psychedelics, the visionary experience, the nature of mind, human potentialities, schizophrenia, death and dying, Indigenous rituals and consciousness, socialism, capitalism, totalitarianism, power and authority, and human evolution. There are references to mutual friends, colleagues, and eminent figures of the day, as well as details about both men's personal lives. The letters bear witness to the development of mind-altering drugs aimed at discovering the mechanisms of mental illness and eventually its treatment. A detailed introduction situates the letters in their historical, social, and literary context, explores how Huxley and Osmond first coined the term "psychedelic," contextualizes their work in mid-century psychiatry, and reflects on their legacy as contributors to the science of mind-altering substances. Psychedelic Prophets is an extraordinary record of a full correspondence between two leading minds and a testament to friendship, intellectualism, empathy, and tolerance. The fact that these sentiments emerge so clearly from the letters, at a historical moment best known for polarizing ideological conflict, threats of nuclear war, and the rise of post-modernism, reveals much about the personalities of the authors and the persistence of these themes today.
Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135314101
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Essay written by Tracy Chevalier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies
Author : George Watson
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 4, 1900-1950 written by George Watson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1972-12-07 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 4 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Author : R. S. Deese
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520959566
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book We Are Amphibians written by R. S. Deese and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Are Amphibians tells the fascinating story of two brothers who changed the way we think about the future of our species. As a pioneering biologist and conservationist, Julian Huxley helped advance the "modern synthesis" in evolutionary biology and played a pivotal role in founding UNESCO and the World Wildlife Fund. His argument that we must accept responsibility for our future evolution as a species has attracted a growing number of scientists and intellectuals who embrace the concept of Transhumanism that he first outlined in the 1950s. Although Aldous Huxley is most widely known for his dystopian novel Brave New World, his writings on religion, ecology, and human consciousness were powerful catalysts for the environmental and human potential movements that grew rapidly in the second half of the twentieth century. While they often disagreed about the role of science and technology in human progress, Julian and Aldous Huxley both believed that the future of our species depends on a saner set of relations with each other and with our environment. Their common concern for ecology has given their ideas about the future of Homo sapiens an enduring resonance in the twenty-first century. The amphibian metaphor that both brothers used to describe humanity highlights not only the complexity and mutability of our species but also our ecologically precarious situation.
Author : Patrick Grant
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349046159
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Six Modern Authors and Problems of Belief written by Patrick Grant and published by Springer. This book was released on 1979-06-17 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441192417
Total Pages : 1246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers written by Stuart Brown and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a two-volume work with entries on individuals who made some contribution to philosophy in the period 1900 to 1960 or soon after. The entries deal with the whole philosophical work of an individual or, in the case of philosophers still living, their whole work to date. Typically the individuals included have been born by 1935 and by now have made their main contributions. Contributions to the subject typically take the form of books or journal articles, but influential teachers and people otherwise important in the world of philosophy may also be included. The dictionary includes amateurs as well as professional philosophers and, where appropriate, thinkers whose main discipline was outside philosophy. There are special problems about the term "British" in the twentieth century, partly because of human migration, partly because of decolonialization and the changing denotation of the term. The intention has been to include not only those who were British subjects at least for a significant part of their lives (even if they mostly lived outside what is now the U.K.) but also people who spent a significant part of their lives in Britain itself, irrespective of their nationality or country of origin. In the first category are included, for instance, a number of people who were born and educated in Britain but who subsequently taught in universities abroad. In the second category are included those who were born elsewhere but who came to Britain and contributed to its philosophical culture.
Author : Christopher Riches
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019251850X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Writers and their Works written by Christopher Riches and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.
Author : Milton Birnbaum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135153307X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Aldous Huxley written by Milton Birnbaum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the moral vacuum and world of shifting values following World War I, Aldous Huxley was both a sensitive refl ector and an articulate catalyst. This work provides a highly illuminating analysis of Huxley's evolution from skeptic to mystic. As Milton Birnbaum shows, in a perceptive interpretation of Huxley's poetry, fi ction, essays and biographies-what evolved in Huxley's moral and intellectual pilgrimage was not so much a change in direction as a shift in emphasis. Even in the sardonic Huxley of the 1920s and 1930s, there is a moral concern. In the later Huxley, there are traces of the satirical skepticism which delighted his readers in the decades preceding World War II. A man of letters, a keen observer, seeker of new ways while profoundly knowledgeable in the truths of ancient wisdom, Huxley tried to achieve a symbiotic synthesis of the best of all worlds. In clarifying and interpreting Huxley's intellectual, moral, and philosophical development, Birnbaum touches upon all the subjects that came under the scrutiny of a singularly encyclopedic mind. This book is of great worth to those interested both in Huxley the brilliant satirist and in Huxley the seeker of salvation. In his search, Huxley typifi ed the modern quest for values. Milton Birnbaum's study is an invaluable guide in that journey. His new introduction takes account of research and analysis of Huxley that has occurred since this book's original publication.
Author : George Woodcock
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349170666
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Twentieth Century Fiction written by George Woodcock and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-04-01 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sumita Roy
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9788120724655
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Aldous Huxley and Indian Thought written by Sumita Roy and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed papers presented at a national seminar.
Author : George Woodcock
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781551642840
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Dawn and the Darkest Hour written by George Woodcock and published by Black Rose Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persuasively asks us to reconsider Huxley's works as the stages of "a spiritual pilgrimage."
Author : David Goodway
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1604866675
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow written by David Goodway and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From William Morris to Oscar Wilde to George Orwell, left-libertarian thought has long been an important but neglected part of British cultural and political history. In Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow, David Goodway seeks to recover and revitalize that indigenous anarchist tradition. This book succeeds as simultaneously a cultural history of left-libertarian thought in Britain and a demonstration of the applicability of that history to current politics. Goodway argues that a recovered anarchist tradition could—and should—be a touchstone for contemporary political radicals. Moving seamlessly from Aldous Huxley and Colin Ward to the war in Iraq, this challenging volume will energize leftist movements throughout the world.
Author : Various
Publisher : Pariyatti
ISBN 13 : 1681721341
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Collected Wheel Publications Volume 3 written by Various and published by Pariyatti. This book was released on 2023-03-05 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pariyatti Edition eBook of the Collected Wheel Publications Vol. 3 is of the renowned Wheel Publications (i.e., the Wheel Series) which deals with various aspects of the Buddha's teaching. Collected Wheel Publications Vol. 3 contents: WH031/032 Manual of Insight - Ledi Sayadaw WH033 Advice To Rahula - Nyanaponika Thera (Editor) WH034/035 Four Noble Truths - Francis Story WH036/037 Buddhism and The Age Of Science - U Chan Htoon WH038 Lamp of the Law - Soma Thera & Piyadassi Thera WH039/040 Purification of Character - Dr. C.B. Dharmasena & Bhikkhu Vimalo WH041 Buddhism and Peace - K.N. Jayatilleke WH042/043 Early Western Buddhists - Francis Story WH044 Contribution of Buddhism to World Culture - Soma Thera WH045/046 Escape To Reality - Ananda Pereira
Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780701121389
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Adonis and the Alphabet, and Other Essays written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
