Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley  (26 Juli 1894– 22 November 1963) adalah penulis, filsuf Inggris, dan anggota keluarga Huxley yang cukup terkenal.

Dia dikenal atas novel-novelnya seperti Brave New World yang berlatar di London era distopia , buku nonfiksinya seperti The Doors of Perception yang menjabarkan pengalaman setelah mengonsumsi obat psikedelik, dan serangkaian esainya, serta novel dengan tema serupa berjudul Island (1962). Pada awal kariernya, Huxley menjadi penyunting majalah Oxford Poetry dan menulis cerpen dan puisi. Ia kemudian menulis catatan perjalanan, cerita dan naskah film. Ia menghabiskan separuh akhir hidupnya di Los Angeles, Amerika Serikat, sejak 1937 sampai meninggal dunia. Pada tahun 1962, setahun sebelum meninggal, ia diangkat sebagai Companion of Literature oleh Royal Society of Literature."Companions of Literature" . Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 5 January 2015

Huxley adalah seorang humanis, pasifis, dan satiris. Huxley kemudian tertarik dengan hal-hal spiritual seperti parapsikologi dan mistisisme filosofis, khususnya universalisme. Menjelang akhir hidupnya, Huxley diakui secara luas sebagai salah satu intelek berpengaruh pada masa itu.Thody, Philipe (1973)

 Penghargaan 
 1939 James Tait Black Memorial Prize 
 1959 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit .
 1962 Companion of Literature 

 Adaptasi film 
 1968 Point Counter Point 
 1971 The Devils 
 1980 Brave New World 
 1998 Brave New World 

 Karya pilihan 
 Novel 
 1921 Crome Yellow
 1923 Antic Hay
 1925 Those Barren Leaves
 1928 Point Counter Point
 1932 Brave New World
 1936 Eyeless in Gaza
 1939 After Many a Summer
 1944 Time Must Have a Stop
 1948 Ape and Essence
 1955 The Genius and the Goddess
 1962 Island

 Koleksi cerita pendek 
 1920 Limbo
 1922 Mortal Coils
 1924 Little Mexican 
 1926 Two or Three Graces
 1930 Brief Candles
 1944 Collected Short Stories
 Jacob's Hands: A Fable 

 Koleksi puisi 
 1916 Oxford Poetry 
 1916 The Burning Wheel
 1917 Jonah
 1918 The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems
 1920 Leda
 1925 Selected Poems
 1929 Arabia Infelix and Other Poems
 1931 The Cicadas and Other Poems
 1971 Collected Poems

 Koleksi esai 
 1923 On the Margin
 1925 Along the Road
 1926 Essays New and Old
 1927 Proper Studies
 1929 Do What You Will
 1930 Vulgarity in Literature
 1931 Music at Night
 1932 Texts and Pretexts
 1936 The Olive Tree and other essays
 1937 Ends and Means
 1940 Words and their Meanings
 1942 The Art of Seeing
 1945 The Perennial Philosophy
 1946 Science, Liberty and Peace
 1950 Themes and Variations
 1954 The Doors of Perception
 1956 Heaven and Hell
 1956 Adonis and the Alphabet 
 1958 Collected Essays
 1958 Brave New World Revisited
 1963 Literature and Science
 1977 Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience 1931–63
 1977 The Human Situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara, 1959

 Naskah 
 Brave New World
 Ape and Essence
 1940 Pride and Prejudice 
 1943 Madame Curie 
 1944 Jane Eyre 
 1947 A Woman's Vengeance
 1950 Prelude to Fame
 1951 Naskah asli (ditolak) film animasi Disney, Alice in Wonderland
 1971 Eyeless in Gaza "Eyeless in Gaza" (1971)

 Buku perjalanan 
 1925 Along The Road: Notes and essays of a tourist
 1926 Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey
 1934 Beyond the Mexique Bay: A Traveller's Journey

 Fiksi anak-anak 
 1967 The Crows of Pearblossom

 Drama 
 1924 The Discovery 
 1931 The World of Light
 1948 Mortal Coils – A Play 
 1958 The Genius and the Goddess 
 1967 The Ambassador of Captripedia
 2000 Now More Than Ever 

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 1949  "Art and Religion
 1950  "Foreword to an Essay on the Indian Philosophy of Peace"


 1955  "Who Are We?"

 1957  "The "Inanimate" is Alive"
 1960  "Symbol and Immediate Experience"

 Rekaman suara di CD 
 1955 Knowledge and Understanding
 1955 Who Are We?

 Lainnya 
 1936 Pacifism and Philosophy
 1937 An Encyclopedia of Pacifism 
 1941 Grey Eminence
 1953 The Devils of Loudun
 1962 The Politics of Ecology
 2007 Selected Letters

 Lihat pula 

 Daftar aktivis perdamaian

 Referensi 

 Sumber 


 Anderson, Jack 1982. "Ballet: Suzanne Farrell in 'Variations' Premiere". New York Times (4 July).
 Barnes Clive. 1966. "Ballet: Still Another Balanchine-Stravinsky Pearl; City Troupe Performs in Premiere Here 'Variations' for Huxley at State Theater". New York Times (1 April): 28.
 Spies, Claudio. 1965. "Notes on Stravinsky's Variations". Perspectives of New Music 4, no. 1 (Fall-Winter): 62–74. Reprinted in Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky, revised edition, edited by Benjamin Boretz and Edward T. Cone, [pages]. New York:W. W. Norton, 1972.
 White, Eric Walter. 1979. Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works, second edition. Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03985-8.

 Bacaan lanjutan 

 Atkins, John. Aldous Huxley: A Literary Study, J. Calder, 1956


 Firchow, Peter. Aldous Huxley: Satirist and Novelist, U of Minnesota P, 1972
 Firchow, Peter. The End of Utopia: A Study of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Bucknell UP, 1984
 Huxley, Aldous. The Human Situation: Aldous Huxley Lectures at Santa Barbara 1959, Flamingo Modern Classic, 1994, ISBN 0-00-654732-X
 Huxley, Laura Archera. This Timeless Moment, Celestial Arts, 2001, ISBN 0-89087-968-0
 Meckier, Jerome. Aldous Huxley: Modern Satirical Novelist of ideas, Firchow and Nugel editors, LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster, 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9668-4
 Murray, Nicholas. Aldous Huxley, Macmillan, 2003, ISBN 0-312-30237-1
 Rolo, Charles J. (ed.). The World of Aldous Huxley, Grosset Universal Library, 1947.
 Sexton, James (ed.). Aldous Huxley: Selected Letters, Ivan R. Dee, 2007, ISBN 1-56663-629-9
 Sawyer, Dana. Aldous Huxley, Crossroad Publishing Co., 2002, ISBN 0-8245-1987-6
 Shaw, Jeffrey M. Illusions of Freedom: Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on Technology and the Human Condition. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock. 2014. ISBN 978-1-62564-058-1.
 Watt, Conrad (ed.). Aldous Huxley, Routledge, 1997, ISBN 0-415-15915-6

 Pranala luar 



 Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery
 BBC discussion programme In our time: "Brave New World". Huxley and the novel. 9 April 2009. (Audio, 45 minutes)
 BBC In their own words series. 12 October 1958. (Video, 12 mins).
 "The Ultimate Revolution" (talk at UC Berkeley, 20 March 1962) 
 Huxley interviewed  on The Mike Wallace Interview 18 May 1958. (Video)





 Centre for Huxley Research
 Aldous Huxley Papers  at University of California, Los Angeles Library Special Collections.
 Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudun. Appendix (1952)


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