{"product_id":"aldous-huxley-book-sybille-bedford-9780394465876","title":"Aldous Huxley","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn outstanding book.--James Sexton\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA welcome and necessary update of the life of one of the twentieth century's most provocative intellectuals.--Dana Sawyer\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rich and lucid account of Aldous Huxley's life and work.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Aldous Huxley was one of the twentieth century's most prescient thinkers. This new biography is a rich and lucid account that charts the different phases of Huxley's career: 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 \u003ci\u003eIsland\u003c\/i\u003e. While Huxley is still best known as the author of \u003ci\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/i\u003e, Jake Poller argues that it is \u003ci\u003eThe Perennial Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Doors of Perception\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIsland\u003c\/i\u003e--Huxley's blueprint for a utopian society--that have had the most cultural impact.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49596337553681,"sku":"GOR009649439","price":18.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50906448724241,"sku":"CIN0394465873VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52699595768081,"sku":"CIN0394465873A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0394465873.jpg?v=1751196996","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/products\/aldous-huxley-buch-sybille-bedford-9780394465876","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}