Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic AestheticsAldous Huxley: The Political Theologian

A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics: Aldous Huxley: The Political... [This chapter argues that we should think of Aldous Huxley as a political theologian, but that in order to do so we need to take literary aesthetics seriously with respect to political discourse and crises in liberal democracy. This is an echo of the broader argument about aesthetics in Chap. 1. Largely focusing on Huxley’s work, there is a digression on the concept of “soma” and an argument that academic interest in soma codes aspirations toward liberalism and globalization that are still entrenched within a European phantasy structure. Returning to Huxley, it argues for a deeper reading of Huxley’s works to show how he uses characters to display aspects of metempsychosis and incarnation. Such readings offer deliberative insight into current crises.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic AestheticsAldous Huxley: The Political Theologian

Download PDF
47 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/springer-journals/a-transatlantic-political-theology-of-psychedelic-aesthetics-aldous-qfAaw75spr

References (0)

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
ISBN
978-3-030-15317-5
Pages
215 –262
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-15318-2_7
Publisher site
See Chapter on Publisher Site

Abstract

[This chapter argues that we should think of Aldous Huxley as a political theologian, but that in order to do so we need to take literary aesthetics seriously with respect to political discourse and crises in liberal democracy. This is an echo of the broader argument about aesthetics in Chap. 1. Largely focusing on Huxley’s work, there is a digression on the concept of “soma” and an argument that academic interest in soma codes aspirations toward liberalism and globalization that are still entrenched within a European phantasy structure. Returning to Huxley, it argues for a deeper reading of Huxley’s works to show how he uses characters to display aspects of metempsychosis and incarnation. Such readings offer deliberative insight into current crises.]

Published: Apr 3, 2019

Keywords: Aldous Huxley; Political theology; Brave New World; Island; Richard Rorty; Utopia; Soma; Eyeless in Gaza; Rig Veda; Amanita muscaria; Magic mushrooms; Mythology; Psyche; Carl Raschke; Spinoza; Time Must Have a Stop; Ape and Essence

There are no references for this article.