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Book Title: Collected Essays
The author of the book: Aldous Huxley
ISBN 13: 9780060902469
Language: English
Format files: PDF
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Edition: Harper Colophon
Date of issue: 1971
ISBN: 0060902469

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There are essays here on pretty much anything that struck Huxley's interest - which is, in itself, inspiring and admirable - but the unspoken theme running through much of the book is an effort to reconcile humanism with the colder truths of the 20th century (i.e. the long view of history, the long view of the cosmos, the long view of homo sapiens, and the capacity for technology to tamper with all of them)... and unfortunately he never really manages that reconciliation in a convincing way. He also tends to repeat himself. One feels that he's spinning his wheels hard against this grim stuff he's trying to grapple with - too hard, in fact, to make for truly edifying reading. An interesting intellectual self-portrait of a mind striving to see above and beyond the mid-20th century, but that's all. When, at the end, he reveals his sober enthusiasm for the spiritual possibilities of mind-altering drugs, it fits; you get the sense that, after years of questing, his consciousness had grown pretty disenchanted with what reality had to offer.

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Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the latter 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. Through his novels and essays Huxley functioned as an examiner and sometimes critic of social mores, norms and ideals. Huxley was a humanist but was also interested towards the end of his life in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.