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Izbor eseja koji se nalaze u ovoj zbirci vođen je željom da se čitatelju što vjernije prikaže prijelomni trenutak u Huxleyevoj filozofiji, trenutak kada je, unatoč osudama suvremenika, raskinuo sa svojim intelektualnim naslijeđem i okrenuo se duhovnom misticizmu koji je, na temelju vlastitog iskustva, počeo smatrati jedinim pravim putem do istine i duhovnog oslobođenja. Njegov posvemašnji obrat u mišljenju najzornije je prikazan u eseju Vrata percepcije, u kojem Huxley opisuje svoje prvo, preobražavajuće iskustvo s psihodeličnim drogama, i koji predstavlja jezgreni esej ove zbirke. Ostali eseji nadovezuju se na Vrata percepcije i predstavljaju podrobniju razradu nekih važnih društveno-političkih tema i ideja koje su u tom eseju nagoviještene, ali ipak nerazjašnjene i nedorečene, kako bi se pružila što cjelovitija slika Huxleyeva ondašnjeg filozofskog nazora.
Uz navedeno, ova je zbirka zamišljena i kao presjek načina mišljenja koji karakterizira čitavu jednu kontrakulturnu generaciju, koju je Huxley, uz ostale poput Kerouaca, Ginsberga i Burroughsa, svojim mislima nadahnuo.
Uz navedeno, ova je zbirka zamišljena i kao presjek načina mišljenja koji karakterizira čitavu jednu kontrakulturnu generaciju, koju je Huxley, uz ostale poput Kerouaca, Ginsberga i Burroughsa, svojim mislima nadahnuo.
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102 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2014
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Aldous Huxley
937 books13.6k followersAldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.
Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.
Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism, as well as universalism, addressing these subjects in his works such as The Perennial Philosophy (1945), which illustrates commonalities between Western and Eastern mysticism, and The Doors of Perception (1954), which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932) and his final novel Island (1962), he presented his visions of dystopia and utopia, respectively.
Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.
Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism, as well as universalism, addressing these subjects in his works such as The Perennial Philosophy (1945), which illustrates commonalities between Western and Eastern mysticism, and The Doors of Perception (1954), which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932) and his final novel Island (1962), he presented his visions of dystopia and utopia, respectively.
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