The visionary legacy of Aldous Huxley is as relevant today as ever. Huxley possessed a sober understanding of the human condition as well as an inspired vision of the human potential. This volume presents an interdisciplinary examination and appreciation of Aldous Huxley's three visionary novels - Brave New World (1932), Ape and Essence (1948), and Island (1962) - to reveal the extent to which Huxley's prognoses into our possible futures was prophetic. The author assesses each novel to reveal the foresights that define our current educational, social, religious, political, and economic institutions, while also exposing our conflicts within those institutions.
This volume examines the educational, cultural and technological changes that have shaped our society since Huxley's work, with special reference to the enduring legacy of educational philosopher John Dewey. It offers profound insights into the educational forces and moral foundations of our society that shape us, both inside and outside of our schools. It is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on all three of Huxley's visionary novels and detail their relevance to our world today.
Автор: Watt, Donald Название: Aldous Huxley ISBN: 0415848261 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415848268 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7042.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Peter Bowering Название: Aldous Huxley: A Study of the Major Novels ISBN: 1472511735 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472511737 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 22176.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Essays analysing the decline of Aldous Huxley as a novelist have become a commonplace of literary criticism over the past two decades, yet he continues to be read and few writers equal his ability to make moral concepts exciting, to animate ideas and clothe them with life and vitality. In this study of the nine major novels, from Crome Yellow (1921) to Island (1962), Mr Bowering offers a positive evaluation Huxley’s achievements as a novelist of ideas, as the moralist of a scientific age, and as an ironist worthy to be compared with Swift. He shows how the conflicting claims of morality and art must be judged in relation to Huxley’s work as a whole and to this search for a way of life which would ‘fit all the facts of experience’. All the principle novels require some knowledge of Huxley’s source materials to be adequately understood and Mr Bowering is particularly informative on this score. His discussion indeed attempts to set the novels in the widest possible area of reference.
Автор: Zigler Название: The Educational Prophecies of Aldous Huxley ISBN: 1138287016 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138287013 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6123.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The visionary legacy of Aldous Huxley is as relevant today as ever. Huxley possessed a sober understanding of the human condition as well as an inspired vision of the human potential. This volume presents an interdisciplinary examination and appreciation of Aldous Huxley's three visionary novels - Brave New World (1932), Ape and Essence (1948), and Island (1962) - to reveal the extent to which Huxley's prognoses into our possible futures was prophetic. The author assesses each novel to reveal the foresights that define our current educational, social, religious, political, and economic institutions, while also exposing our conflicts within those institutions.
This volume examines the educational, cultural and technological changes that have shaped our society since Huxley's work, with special reference to the enduring legacy of educational philosopher John Dewey. It offers profound insights into the educational forces and moral foundations of our society that shape us, both inside and outside of our schools. It is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on all three of Huxley's visionary novels and detail their relevance to our world today.
Автор: Jake Poller Название: Aldous Huxley and Alternative Spirituality ISBN: 9004406891 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004406896 Издательство: Brill Цена: 33671.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Aldous Huxley and Alternative Spirituality offers an incisive analysis of the full range of Huxley’s spiritual interests, spanning both mysticism (neo-Vedanta, Taoism, Mahayana and Zen Buddhism) and Western esotericism (mesmerism, spiritualism, the paranormal). Jake Poller examines how Huxley’s shifting spiritual convictions influenced his fiction, such as his depiction of the body and sex, and reveals how Huxley’s use of psychedelic substances affected his spiritual convictions, resulting in a Tantric turn in his work. Poller demonstrates how Huxley’s vision of a new alternative spirituality in Island , in which the Palanese select their beliefs from different religious traditions, anticipates the New Age spiritual supermarket and traces the profound influence of Huxley’s ideas on the spiritual seekers of the twentieth century and beyond.
Автор: Deb, Indrani Название: Living with monsters ISBN: 1032232390 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032232393 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Aldous Huxley is one of the most well-known modernist intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century - a proper study of Huxley`s characterization in his novels opens up a veritable treasure-house of history, philosophy, psychology, and incisive satire.
Автор: Aldous Steve Название: World of Shaft ISBN: 0786499230 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786499236 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3326.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Mention Shaft and most people think of Gordon Parks` seminal 1971 film starring Richard Roundtree in a leather coat, walking the streets of Manhattan. But Shaft actually made his debut on the printed page as the creation of a white novelist, Ernest Tidyman. Based on extensive research of Tidyman`s personal papers, this book tells the story of Shaft from the perspective of his creator.
Автор: J. Deery Название: Aldous Huxley and the Mysticism of Science ISBN: 0333637674 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333637678 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This examination of his fiction and non-fiction reveals Huxley`s significance for cross-disciplinary debates between religion, science and literature, and provides examples of the transmission or refraction of knowledge from one discourse to another.
Автор: Watt, Donald Название: Aldous Huxley ISBN: 0415159156 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415159159 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 44405.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Burt, Ramsay , Huxley, Michael Название: Dance, Modernism, and Modernity ISBN: 1138313033 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138313033 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity, by examining the way in which leading dancers have responded to modernity. Dance, Modernism, and Modernity considers the development of modernism in dance as an interdisciplinary and global phenomenon.
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