Aldous Huxley: Complete Essays | Buch

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Cover: 9781566633222 | Complete Essays | Aldous Huxley, 1920-1925 | Aldous Huxley | Buch

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Beschreibung

These first two volumes of a projected five, in preparation for several years, begin a major publishing venture, collecting the complete essays of one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. The first two volumes span the most productive period of Huxley's career. Volume I begins with his essays for Gilbert Murray's Athenaeum and his music essays for the New Westminster Gazette. Volume II continues through the 1920s and includes his controversial essays on India and the empire in "Jesting Pilate." The essays of both volumes range from nuanced assessments of art and architecture to political analyses, history, science, religion, and art, and a newly discovered series on music. Wide-ranging, allusive, and witty, they are informed by the probing skepticism of a highly educated and ironically incisive member of the English upper middle class. Huxley's fascination with the codes and conventions of European culture, his growing apprehensions about the menacing collapse of the European political order, and his awareness of the impact of science and technology on the post-Versailles world of England, France, Germany, and the United States form the basis for his critique. His subjects overlap with the satirical novels he wrote during the period between the wars, culminating in Point Counter Point and Brave New World. At their best, these essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature.

Über den Autor

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher, and the author of nearly 50 books-novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. He was a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature. Widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of the 20th century, he avidly explored mysticism and the cogency of universal truths; his most famous work, Brave New World, presented his dystopian vision of modern Western culture, countered by the utopian vision of his final novel, Island.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2000
Genre:	Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	510
Reihe:	Complete Essays of Aldous Huxley
ISBN-13:	9781566633222
ISBN-10:	1566633222
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Huxley, Aldous
Redaktion:	Sexton, James
Hersteller:	Ivan R. Dee Complete Essays of Aldous Huxley
Maße:	235 x 157 x 34 mm
Von/Mit:	Aldous Huxley
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.10.2000
Gewicht:	0,988 kg

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