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Point Counter Point
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Author : Aldous Huxley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Point Counter Point written by Aldous Huxley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Fiction categories.
A satiric view of intellectual life in the '20s and is populated with characters based on such celebrities of the time as D.H. Lawrence, KatherineMansfield, Sir Oswald Mosley, Nancy Cunard, and John Middleton Murray, aswell as Huxley himself.
Point Counter Point
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Author : Aldous Huxley
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 1996
Point Counter Point written by Aldous Huxley and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Fiction categories.
Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of the disease of modern man in the manner of a composer - themes and characters are repeated, altered slightly, and played off one another in a tone that is at once critical and sympathetic. First published in 1928, Huxley's satiric view of intellectual life in the '20s is populated with characters based on such celebrities of the time as D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Sir Oswald Mosley, Nancy Cunard, and John Middleton Murray, as well as Huxley himself. A major work of the 20th century and a monument of literary modernism, this edition includes an introduction by acclaimed novelist Nicholas Mosley (author of Hopeful Monsters and the son of Sir Oswald Mosley). Along with Brave New World (written a few years later), Point Counter Point is Huxley's most concentrated attack on the scientific attitude and its effect on modern culture.
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
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Debating Organization
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Author : Robert Westwood
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2009-02-04
Debating Organization written by Robert Westwood and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-04 with Business & Economics categories.
This volume introduces readers to the central debates oforganization studies through a series of 'point' and 'counterpoint'debates by major figures in the field. Introduces readers to the central tensions and debates oforganization studies. Celebrates the productive heterogeneity of the field by placingcompeting perspectives side by side. Includes contributions from major figures in the field. Structured in an innovative 'point' and 'counterpoint'format.
Point Counterpoint
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Author : Aldous Huxley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-10-02
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Point Counter Point, the most complex and longest of Aldous Huxley's novels, was first published in 1928. Modern Library ranked Point Counter Point 44th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century in 1998.The novel's title is a reference to the musical technique of counterpoint, and the story is on the fashion of a work of music with a number of interlinked storylines and recurring themes. Many of the characters are based on real people, most of whom Huxley knew personally snd spares none of these characters: Rampion and Burlap obsessed with Life, Marjorie, Elinor and Walter Bidlake romanticising in love, Bidlake Senior and Lord Edward detached from real life, the cynicism of Spandreth, the politics of Webley and the stupidity of Sidney Quarles. None of the discussions on art, life and science goes well and seems to be shrouded by excellent mocking. Walter Bidlake, a young journalist lives with Marjorie Carling, a married woman whose husband refuses to grant her a divorce. Marjorie becomes pregnant with a weak and ineffectual Walter's child, but their relationship is disintegrating because Walter has fallen desperately in love with the sexually aggressive and independent Lucy Tantamount (based on Nancy Cunard, with whom Huxley had a similarly unsatisfactory affair). Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 - 22 November 1963) was an English writer and a prominent member of the Huxley family. He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School. In 1911, he suffered an illness which "left him practically blind for two to three years and weak sighted for his whole life. His teacher was his mother, who supervised him for several years until she became terminally ill. In 1921, Huxley married the Belgian refugee Maria Nys. They lived with their young son in Italy part of the time in the 1920s, where Huxley would visit his friend D. H. Lawrence. Following Lawrence's death in 1930, Huxley edited Lawrence's letters in 1933 and moved to USA in 1937. From 1939, and continuing until his death in 1963, Huxley had an extensive association with the Vedanta Society of Southern California. In 1944, Huxley wrote the introduction to the "Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God", translated by Swami Prabhavanada and Christopher Isherwood. From 1941 until 1960, Huxley contributed 48 articles to Vedanta and the West, published by the Society. He also served on the editorial board with Isherwood, Heard, and playwright John van Druten from 1951 through 1962.Huxley is best known for his novels including Brave New World, set in a dystopian London and The Doors of Perception which recalls experiences when taking a psychedelic drug. Huxley also wrote a essays on a wide-ranging topics, edited the magazine Oxford Poetry and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist. He became deeply concerned that humans might become subjugated through the sophisticated use of the mass media or mood-altering drugs, or tragically impacted by misunderstanding or the misapplication of increasingly sophisticated technology. Later, he became interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism, in particular, Universalism. He is also well known for his use of psychedelic drugs. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time. Following the death of his first wife Maria Nys in 1955, Huxley married Laura Archera (1911-2007) in 1956. In 1960, Huxley was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer and suffered health deterioration. Huxley, who was denied the US citizenship by the government of USA, died as a UK citizen at 5:20 pm on 22 November 1963.
Point Counterpoint
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Author : Edward L. Gubman
language : en
Publisher: Society for Human Resource Management
Release Date : 2012
Point Counterpoint written by Edward L. Gubman and has been published by Society for Human Resource Management this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Business & Economics categories.
"Published in association with the Society for Human Resource Management, Alexandria, Virginia."
Chances Are
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Author : Richard Russo
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2019-11-07
Chances Are written by Richard Russo and has been published by Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-07 with Fiction categories.
One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year-old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college in the 1960s. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today - Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher and Mickey an ageing musician. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since 1971: the disappearance of their friend Jacy. Now, decades later, the distant past interrupts the present as the truth about what happened to Jacy finally emerges, forcing the men to reconsider everything they thought they knew about each other. Shot through with Russo's trademark comedy and humanity, Chances Are also introduces a new level of suspense and menace that will quicken the reader's heartbeat throughout this absorbing saga of how friendship's bonds are every bit as constricting and rewarding as those of family. For both longtime fans and lucky newcomers, Chances Are is a stunning demonstration of a highly-acclaimed author deepening and expanding his remarkable body of work.
Maurice Spandrell And The Problem Of Evil In Point Counter Point 1928 By Aldous Huxley
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Author : Tabea Halbmeyer
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2020-09-24
Maurice Spandrell And The Problem Of Evil In Point Counter Point 1928 By Aldous Huxley written by Tabea Halbmeyer and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-24 with Literary Collections categories.
Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Literature - Modern Literature, grade: 1,0, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, language: English, abstract: This paper is an analysis of Huxley's representation of evilness by the example of Maurice Spandrell, a character in his novel "Point Counter Point". Huxley constructed Spandrell as the incarnation of evilness according to the understanding of evilness as an ‘unsubstantial’ category. Here, ‘good’ and ‘evil’ are intertwined as he is represented as a paradoxical figure, namely both as a perpetrator and as a victim. The dialectics in Spandrell’s characterisation are exemplary for the dialectics present in "Point Counter Point" and in modernism in general. Talking a closer look, "Point Counter Point" reveals Huxley’s belief in a deeper ‘truth’ that remains mysterious in its contingent existence of absence and presence. In connection with Huxley’s understanding of ‘God’, which he lays down mainly in his book The Perennial Philosophy (1945), Huxley’s representation of evilness alias Spandrell is going to be analysed in this paper.8 There are other characters in Point Counter Point concerned with the question of God, for example, Marjorie Carling.9 However, the focus will be on Spandrell as the contemplations about good and evil concentrate around his character. Spandrell constantly tries to explain God’s absence and make his presence felt but he is disappointed again and again. In this way, he embodies the focal point of the ‘problem of evil’ in Point Counter Point. The root of evil, in Spandrell’s case, can be found in his ‘individual’ psychology. With the help of Spandrell, Huxley reflects on the origin of evil, in particular, on how evilness can develop in a person’s life.
Moksha
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Author : Aldous Huxley
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1999-04-01
Moksha written by Aldous Huxley and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-04-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Selected writings from the author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception on the role of psychedelics in society. • Includes letters and lectures by Huxley never published elsewhere. In May 1953 Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescaline. The mystical and transcendent experience that followed set him off on an exploration that was to produce a revolutionary body of work about the inner reaches of the human mind. Huxley was decades ahead of his time in his anticipation of the dangers modern culture was creating through explosive population increase, headlong technological advance, and militant nationalism, and he saw psychedelics as the greatest means at our disposal to "remind adults that the real world is very different from the misshapen universe they have created for themselves by means of their culture-conditioned prejudices." Much of Huxley's writings following his 1953 mescaline experiment can be seen as his attempt to reveal the power of these substances to awaken a sense of the sacred in people living in a technological society hostile to mystical revelations. Moksha, a Sanskrit word meaning "liberation," is a collection of the prophetic and visionary writings of Aldous Huxley. It includes selections from his acclaimed novels Brave New World and Island, both of which envision societies centered around the use of psychedelics as stabilizing forces, as well as pieces from The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, his famous works on consciousness expansion.
Point Counterpoint
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Author : Lynn Eubank
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1991-01-01
Point Counterpoint written by Lynn Eubank and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-01 with Psychology categories.
Point Counterpoint offers a series of papers and replies originally presented at a special session of the Second Language Research Forum, UCLA, March 1989. The focus of the papers is primarily the role of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition, though the agenda also includes discussion of other fundamental questions, viz., the explanatory potential of linguistic theory in native-language development. It may come as no surprise that the contributors and their respondents often present very different perspectives on the issues, for most of the authors were known in advance to hold contrasting points of view. Contributors (c) and Respondents (r) are: Wolfgang Klein (c)/Nina Hyams (r); Sascha Felix (c)/Jacquelyn Schachter (r); Suzanne Flynn & Sharon Manuel (c)/David Birdsong (r); Lydia White (c)/Robert Bley-Vroman (r); Peter Jordens (c)/Lynn Eubank (r); Jurgen Meisel (c)/Bonnie Schwartz (r); Sharon Hilles (c)/William O'Grady (r); Daniel Finer (c)/Margaret Thomas (r); Usha Lakshmanan (c)/Nina Hymans & Ken Safir (r).