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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 : Aldous Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Adonis and the Alphabet and Other Essays, by Aldous Huxley written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (878 download)
Download or read book Adonis and the Alphabet and Others Essays written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (785 download)
Download or read book Adonis and the Alphabet Essays 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 : 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:
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Anna Neima
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009058789
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Practical Utopia written by Anna Neima and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dartington Hall was a social experiment of kaleidoscopic vitality, founded in Devon in 1925, where ambitious ideals were turned into a reality. Practical Utopia explores its compelling history, through the lives of its founders and participants, and opens a window onto British and international social reform between the wars.
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 : 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 : 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 : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493082108
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Complete Essays written by Aldous Huxley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fifth of six volumes in a major publishing enterprise, Huxley continues to explore the role of science and technology in modern culture, and seeks a final level of foundational Truth that might provide the basis for his growing interest in religious mysticism. His philosophy of history took its final form in this period. At their best, Huxley's essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature. "A remarkable publishing event...beautifully produced and authoritatively edited."—Jeffrey Hart. "He writes with an easy assurance and a command of classical and modern cross-references,"—Christopher Hitchens, Los Angeles Times. "There is much to enjoy in these volumes...they are important as a document of his times, and of a window on to a stage in the evolution of his mind."—Economist. "You have to marvel at the range of [Huxley's] interests and the intelligence with which he explores them....What we experience in this high journalism is a man of intelligence, sensibility, and formidable erudition engaging his era and struggling for equilibrium while sharing the widespread perception that something ghastly has happened to European civilization...."—Washington Times
Author : Milton Birnbaum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135153307X
Total Pages : 319 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 319 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 : Anna Neima
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1529023084
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Utopians written by Anna Neima and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Fascinating and richly documented . . . Few books manage to be so informative and so entertaining.' – Sunday Times 'Thanks to Neima’s rigorous research, each chapter offers something new.' – Spectator 'Neima ranges with impressive confidence across the world'. – Literary Review Santiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, the Bruderhof in Germany and Trabuco College in America: six experimental communities established in the aftermath of the First World War, each aiming to change the world. The Utopians is an absorbing and vivid account of these collectives and their charismatic leaders and reveals them to be full of eccentric characters, outlandish lifestyles and unchecked idealism. Dismissed and even mocked in their time, yet, a century later, their influence still resonates in progressive education, environmentalism, medical research and mindfulness training. Without such inspirational experiments in how to live, post-war society would have been a poorer place.
