A rich and lucid account of Aldous Huxley's life and work. Aldous Huxley was one of the twentieth century's most prescient thinkers. This new biography charts the different phases of Huxley's life and writing: from the early satirist who depicted the glamorous despair of the postwar generation to the committed pacifist of the 1930s, the spiritual seeker of the 1940s, the psychedelic sage of the 1950s who affirmed the spiritual potential of mescaline and LSD, and the New Age prophet. While Huxley is best-known as the author of
Brave New World, Jake Poller argues that it is
The Perennial Philosophy,
The Doors of Perception, and
Island--Huxley's blueprint for a utopian society--that have had the most impact on culture at large. Taken together, Poller's two strands of analysis provide a rich and lucid account of Aldous Huxley's life and work.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 08/16/2021
ISBN: 9781789144277
Pages: 208
