1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910419553403321

Autore

Galli Della Loggia, Ernesto <1942- >

Titolo

Il tramonto di una nazione : retroscena della fine / Ernesto Galli Della Loggia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Venezia, : Marsilio

[Milano], : Feltrinelli, 2019

ISBN

978-88-297-0040-0

Descrizione fisica

XXI, 323 p. ; 20 cm

Collana

Universale economica

Disciplina

306.20945

Locazione

FSPBC

Collocazione

XIV M 91

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Scritti già pubblicati in: Corriere della Sera, 2000-2017



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910827372803321

Autore

Poller Jake

Titolo

Aldous Huxley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Reaktion Books, Limited, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

1-78914-428-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 pages)

Collana

Critical Lives

Disciplina

823.912

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Island Universes -- 1. Bildung and Roman, 1894-1921 -- 2. Dangerous Liaisons, 1921-8 -- 3. Intimations of Technocracy, 1928-33 -- 4. The Oceanic Feeling, 1933-9 -- 5. The Perennial Philosophy, 1939-45 -- 6. Following the Tao, 1945-54 -- 7. Death and the Moksha-medicine, 1954-63 -- Epilogue -- References -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Photo Acknowledgements.

Sommario/riassunto

"An outstanding book."--James Sexton "A welcome and necessary update of the life of one of the twentieth century's most provocative intellectuals."--Dana Sawyer 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 is a rich and lucid account that charts the different phases of Huxley's career: 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--to the New Age prophet of Island. While Huxley is still 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 cultural impact.