Description
Aldous Huxley was one of the most incisive and prescient thinkers of the twentieth century. This new biography charts the different phases of Huxley’s life and work: 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 – Huxley’s blueprint for a utopian society. While Huxley is still best-known as the author of Brave New World, Poller argues that it is The Perennial Philosophy, The Doors of Perception and Island that have had the most impact on culture at large.
