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Autore |
Maurini Alessandro |
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Aldous Huxley : the political thought of a man of letters / / Alessandro Maurini |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (193 pages) |
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Collana |
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Politics, Literature, and Film |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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United States Politics and government |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: An intellectual biography of a political thinker -- Beyond Marxism and positivism: the formative years -- Huxley's political thinking: the lesson of Vilfredo Pareto -- Mass society and Fordism -- The totalitarian elite -- Democratic elitism for peace and democracy -- Political thought between utopia and dystopia -- Huxley within contemporary political thought -- Appendix: On pacifist and cooperative realism: a misunderstanding in Turin between Aldous Huxley and Giuseppe Prezzolini in 1958. |
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