Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
ISBN: 146174136X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset of another world war with its Holocaust and atomic ruin. In 1948, seeing that the probable shape of his anti-utopia had been altered inevitably by the facts of history, Huxley wrote Ape and Essence. In this savage novel, using the form of a film scenario, he transports us to the year 2108. The setting is Los Angeles where a "rediscovery expedition" from New Zealand is trying to make sense of what is left. From chief botanist Alfred Poole we learn, to our dismay, about the twenty-second-century way of life. "It was inevitable that Mr. Huxley should have written this book: one could almost have seen it since Hiroshima is the necessary sequel to Brave New World."—Alfred Kazin. "The book has a certain awesome impressiveness; its sheer intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader."—Time.
Ape and Essence
Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
ISBN: 146174136X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset of another world war with its Holocaust and atomic ruin. In 1948, seeing that the probable shape of his anti-utopia had been altered inevitably by the facts of history, Huxley wrote Ape and Essence. In this savage novel, using the form of a film scenario, he transports us to the year 2108. The setting is Los Angeles where a "rediscovery expedition" from New Zealand is trying to make sense of what is left. From chief botanist Alfred Poole we learn, to our dismay, about the twenty-second-century way of life. "It was inevitable that Mr. Huxley should have written this book: one could almost have seen it since Hiroshima is the necessary sequel to Brave New World."—Alfred Kazin. "The book has a certain awesome impressiveness; its sheer intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader."—Time.
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
ISBN: 146174136X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset of another world war with its Holocaust and atomic ruin. In 1948, seeing that the probable shape of his anti-utopia had been altered inevitably by the facts of history, Huxley wrote Ape and Essence. In this savage novel, using the form of a film scenario, he transports us to the year 2108. The setting is Los Angeles where a "rediscovery expedition" from New Zealand is trying to make sense of what is left. From chief botanist Alfred Poole we learn, to our dismay, about the twenty-second-century way of life. "It was inevitable that Mr. Huxley should have written this book: one could almost have seen it since Hiroshima is the necessary sequel to Brave New World."—Alfred Kazin. "The book has a certain awesome impressiveness; its sheer intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader."—Time.
Interpreting the Moving Image
Author: Noel Carroll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521589703
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A collection of film essays by the well-respected critic, Noël Carroll.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521589703
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A collection of film essays by the well-respected critic, Noël Carroll.
The Educational Prophecies of Aldous Huxley
Author: Ronald Zigler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781138287013
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Visionary for the twentieth century -- Brave new world : pseudo-utopian vision and populist nightmare -- Ape and essence : dystopian neurotheological vision and theocratic nightmare -- An Island for the new age : a true utopian vision -- The future of our prophecies
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781138287013
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Visionary for the twentieth century -- Brave new world : pseudo-utopian vision and populist nightmare -- Ape and essence : dystopian neurotheological vision and theocratic nightmare -- An Island for the new age : a true utopian vision -- The future of our prophecies
Collected Essays
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Anatomy of Wonder
Author: Neil Barron
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
This classic work is an essential tool for collection development, research, reference, and readers' advisory work."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
This classic work is an essential tool for collection development, research, reference, and readers' advisory work."--BOOK JACKET.
The Ape that Understood the Universe
Author: Steve Stewart-Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108776035
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our altruistic tendencies, and our culture? The book tackles these issues by drawing on two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory. The guiding assumption is that humans are animals, and that like all animals, we evolved to pass on our genes. At some point, however, we also evolved the capacity for culture - and from that moment, culture began evolving in its own right. This transformed us from a mere ape into an ape capable of reshaping the planet, travelling to other worlds, and understanding the vast universe of which we're but a tiny, fleeting fragment. Featuring a new foreword by Michael Shermer.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108776035
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our altruistic tendencies, and our culture? The book tackles these issues by drawing on two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory. The guiding assumption is that humans are animals, and that like all animals, we evolved to pass on our genes. At some point, however, we also evolved the capacity for culture - and from that moment, culture began evolving in its own right. This transformed us from a mere ape into an ape capable of reshaping the planet, travelling to other worlds, and understanding the vast universe of which we're but a tiny, fleeting fragment. Featuring a new foreword by Michael Shermer.
Time Must Have a Stop
Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564781802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"This is Mr. Huxley's best novel for a very long time . . . admirably constructed . . . bright and sun-pierced." New Statesman and Nation
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564781802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"This is Mr. Huxley's best novel for a very long time . . . admirably constructed . . . bright and sun-pierced." New Statesman and Nation
Ninety Double Martinis
Author: Thomas Hinde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
From Man to Ape
Author: Adriana Novoa
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226596168
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The authors here offer a history and interpretation of the reception of Darwinism in Argentina, illuminating the ways culture shapes scientific enterprise. They reveal new ways of understanding Latin American science and its impact on the scientific communities of Europe and North America.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226596168
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The authors here offer a history and interpretation of the reception of Darwinism in Argentina, illuminating the ways culture shapes scientific enterprise. They reveal new ways of understanding Latin American science and its impact on the scientific communities of Europe and North America.
Collected Short Stories
Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description