Aldous Huxley And The Mysticism Of Science

Author : June Deery
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312159838

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Aldous Huxley and the Mysticism of Science by June Deery Pdf

Can religious belief survive in a scientific era? Will the desire for the transcendent outlast postmodern nihilism? Aldous Huxley thought so. One of the first writers to grasp the profound significance of the new physics, Huxley invoked science more often than any other artist of his generation. He also sought a religion compatible with the new scientific picture. Today his synthesis of mysticism and science is being played out in high and popular culture - in postmodern fiction, the Internet, and various psycho-religious movements. June Deery's groundbreaking study of his fiction and nonfiction uncovers Huxley's contribution to crossdisciplinary debates between literature, science and religion and traces his influence on recent popular developments such as the 'New Age movement'. It combines a detailed assessment of one twentieth-century writer's use and knowledge of science with general theoretical guidelines for judging scientific fact in literary fiction.

Author : J. Deery
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230375055

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Aldous Huxley and the Mysticism of Science by J. Deery Pdf

Can religious belief survive in a scientific era? Aldous Huxley thought so. His early recognition of the profound significance of twentieth-century science and the need for moral and spiritual direction resulted in his espousal of mysticism. An examination of his fiction and nonfiction 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.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781551997636

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The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley Pdf

In one of his most significant pieces of non-fiction, the mind behind Brave New World presents a thorough and articulate comparison of different forms of mysticism. Written for an audience presumed to be primarily familiar with Christianity, The Perennial Philosophy aims to extract greater theological truths from the common threads found across religions, and to explore how they can be used to judge mankind (and how it often fails to meet the standards set). It primarily consists of quotations taken from famous figures within each tradition, with short connecting passages written by Huxley. Random House of Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in ebook form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Author : Milton Birnbaum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351533072

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Aldous Huxley by Milton Birnbaum Pdf

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 : David S. Savage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : UOM:39015002703356

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Mysticism and Aldous Huxley by David S. Savage Pdf

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Herder & Herder
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : IND:30000116127030

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Huxley and God by Aldous Huxley Pdf

This volume of essays, written with the authors trademark elegance and wit, tackles subjects such as Action and Contemplation, Religion and Time, Reflections on the Lord's Prayer, and Notes on Zen.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1974384705

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Science Liberty and Peace by Aldous Huxley Pdf

An essay written by Aldous Huxley, published in 1946. The essay is an opinionated discussion covering a wide range of subjects reflecting Huxley's views towards society at that time. He puts forward a number of predictions, many of which turned out to be true up to 60 years later. A consistent theme throughout the essay is Huxley's preference towards a decentralised society. Aldous Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts. Huxley was a humanist and pacifist, but was also latterly interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism. He was also well known for advocating and taking psychedelics. By the end of his life Huxley was considered, in some academic circles, a leader of modern thought and an intellectual of the highest rank.

Author : Patrick Grant
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1979-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349046157

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Six Modern Authors and Problems of Belief by Patrick Grant Pdf

Author : Jake Poller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004406902

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Aldous Huxley and Alternative Spirituality by Jake Poller Pdf

Aldous Huxley and Alternative Spirituality offers an analysis of Huxley’s spiritual interests, spanning both mysticism and Western esotericism. With this methodology, Jake Poller generates new insights into Huxley’s work and draws revealing parallels between Huxley’s ideas and the New Age.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literature and science
ISBN : 0918024854

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Literature and Science by Aldous Huxley Pdf

Author : Jerome Meckier
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783643901019

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Aldous Huxley, from Poet to Mystic by Jerome Meckier Pdf

Aldous Huxley began as a poet. He perfected the voice of the modern satirical poet of ideas, who used art against itself to produce a parodic poetry of breakdowns, collapses, stalemates, and dead ends best suited to the apparent pointlessness of the post-war era. His cleverest, most irreverent poems are contrapuntal: they, in effect, silence venerable poets and cancel traditional formats. Huxley's poetic personas either fail to preserve conventional forms or purposely sabotage them. By 1920, Huxley became the parodic equivalent of the formative intelligences (i.e., Dante, Goethe, and Lucretius) who once synthesized their respective eras positively. In this book, author Jerome Meckier explicates most of Huxley's poems, including Leda, his masterpiece, an ironical modern myth. Meckier traces Huxley's development in terms of the poets he inserted in five of his eleven novels, along with their poems. These poets mostly fail as poets, their different stances falling apart one after another. But Huxley began to detect a spiritual significance underlying the creative urge. This allowed him to rehabilitate many of the Romantic and Victorian poets he formerly ridiculed as frauds and liars. Eventually, he celebrated mystical contemplation as silent poetry, positing a utopia in which everyone is a poet to the limits of his or her potentiality. Huxley became the perennial philosopher, a neo-Brahmin: the sage-like figure he initially personified parodically. His paradigmatic career took him from a Pyrrhonic silencing of outmoded poems and poets to the advocacy of a poetry of silence. (Series: "Human Potentialities". Studien zu Aldous Huxley & zeitgenossischer Kultur/Studies in Aldous Huxley & Contemporary Culture - Vol. 11)

Author : C. C. Barfoot
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9042013478

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Aldous Huxley Between East and West by C. C. Barfoot Pdf

Although the title of this volume is Aldous Huxley between East and West, the order of the articles found within goes from West to East, which naturally imitates Huxley's own progress, especially since he went to the trouble of stepping out as far West as possible before starting for the East. Indeed one could argue that he was already on his way there before he left for California, a continuous journey, perhaps, since from the Californian shores of the Pacific the East is the further West. After the Introduction which places Huxley between East and West, the book starts with a consideration of Huxley's family connections, then goes onto his earliest fictions, his interest in science and the issue of modernity, and his experiments with drama and their inherent philosophical concerns. The poetry with which he began his writing career is then viewed as a link between his earlier Western self and his later Oriental interests, suggesting that the latter was always inherent in the former. A number of considerations of the Utopian themes in Huxley's middle and later fiction leads the volume to a climax with four articles surveying the foibles and the wisdom of Huxley's encounter with Eastern religious thought and philosophy, his misunderstandings, as well as ours, of what actually he had learned and wished to pass on to the Western world.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443434492

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The Doors Of Perception & Heaven And Hell by Aldous Huxley Pdf

Long before the psychedelic drug movement of the 1960s, Aldous Huxley wrote about his mind-expanding experiences taking mescaline and participating in ecstatic meditation in his essays The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell. In The Doors of Perception, Huxley blends Eastern mysticism with scientific experimentation to produce one of the most influential works on the effects of hallucinatory drugs on the human psyche. Heaven and Hell focuses on how science, art, religion, literature, and psychoactive drugs can expand the everyday view of reality and offer a more profound grasp of the human experience. Huxley’s essays The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell ushered in a whole new generation of counter-culture icons such as Jackson Pollock, John Cage, Timothy Leary and Jim Morrison. In fact, Morrison’s band name The Doors was inspired by The Doors of Perception. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.

Author : Bernfried Nugel,Jerome Meckier
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 3825882721

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Aldous Huxley Annual by Bernfried Nugel,Jerome Meckier Pdf

Aldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Society at the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies in Munster, Germany. It publishes essays on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley and his circle. It aspires to be the sort of periodical that Huxley would have wanted to read and to which he might have contributed. This issue features Aldous Huxley's and Beth Wendel's dramatization of The Genius and the Goddess never before published. It also includes several rather unknown travel essays by Aldous Huxley as well as Peter E. Firchow's opening lecture at the Third International Aldous Huxley Symposium held in Riga in July 2004.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1544816227

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The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley Pdf

Two great classics come to life in one of the most loved books in American History. Remastered to include Illustrated exercises, a biography of Aldous Huxley, and including the full essay of Heaven and Hell, and The Doors to Perception, this book is a great gift to those who are unfamiliar with his work, or may have forgotten about Huxley's famous contemplations of life and death. - ZKBS(c) All Rights Reserved.