Research Catalog

Title

Brave new world : and, Brave new world revisited / Aldous Huxley ; foreword by Christopher Hitchens.

Author

Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.

Publication

New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005, ©2004.

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Additional Authors

Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.

Description

xxi, 340 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"The novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future - of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class." "The nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958, is a work in which Huxley uses his knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including the threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Brave new world revisited.

Subject

• Passivity (Psychology) > Fiction
• Genetic engineering > Fiction
• Totalitarianism > Fiction
• Collectivism > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Psychological fiction.
• Political fiction.
• Science fiction.

Contents

Foreword / Christopher Hitchens -- Brave new world -- Foreword / Aldous Huxley -- Brave new world revisited -- Foreword / Aldous Huxley -- I. Over-population -- II. Quantity, quality, morality -- III. Over-organization -- IV. Propaganda in a democratic society -- V. Propaganda under a dictatorship -- VI. The arts of selling -- VII. Brainwashing -- VIII. Chemical persuasion -- IX. Subconscious persuasion -- X. Hypnopaedia -- XI. Education for freedom -- XII. What can be done?

ISBN

0060776099

LCCN

9780060776091

OCLC

• ocm61141178
• SCSB-5303826

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries