Explains the existential interpretation of the book 'Island,' by Aldous Huxley. Etymology of utopia; Description of the progress from dualism to a unitary view; Difference between optimism and pessimism.MacDonaldAlexEBSCO_AspUtopian Studies
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Family Life He married Maria Nys in 1919. The couple welcomed a son, Matthew Huxley, the following year. Aldous Huxley married second wife, Laura, in 1956. Associated With He once wrote a letter to George Orwell in which he praised Orwell's famous novel, 1984.Popularity...
(1952), a detailed psychological study of a historical incident in which a group of 17th-century French nuns were allegedly the victims of demonic possession, andThe Doors of Perception(1954), a book about Huxley’s experiences with the hallucinogenic drugmescaline. His last novel,Island(1962),...
—— Aldous Huxley《Island》 02. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. —— Aldous Huxley 03. Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom....
Aldous Huxley. Writer: A Woman's Vengeance. Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, at Laleham in Godalming, Surrey, England. He was the third of four children. His brother Julian Huxley was a biologist known for his theories of evolution. His g
1、Aldous Leonard Huxley 赫胥黎简介Aldous Leonard Huxley1894-1963 Antic Hay 滑稽的环舞;Point Counter Point 旋律和对立;Brave New World新奇的世界;Letters书信集;Ape and Essence猿与本质:Eyeless in Gaza加沙的盲A;After Many a Summer多少个夏天之后;The Doors of Perception感觉之门;Fairy Godmother天使 ...
Chapter Fourteen THE Park Lane Hospital for the Dying was a sixty-story tower of primrose tiles. As the Savage stepped out of his taxicopter a convoy of gaily-coloured aerial hearses rose whirring from the roof and darted away across the Park, westwa
Later, Huxley looks at a bouquet of flowers and has a realization about “Is-ness” or “Suchness”, the inherent quality of existence: I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation-the miracle, moment by moment,...
Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher most famous for his dystopian novel, Brave New World, and its utopian counterpart, The Island. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times and made major contributions to the philosophy of universalism and philosophical mysticism...