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Brave new world : and, Brave new world revisited
Title:
Brave new world : and, Brave new world revisited
Added Title:
Brave new world revisited.
Summary:
The astonishing 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. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. Following Brave New World is the nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958. It is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with the prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.
General Note:
First work originally published: New York : Harper, 1932. 2nd work originally published: New York : Harper, 1958.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
Foreword / Christopher Hitchens -- Brave new world -- Foreword by author -- Brave new world revisited -- Foreword by author -- 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?
Physical Description:
xxi, 340 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher:
HarperCollins,
Publication Date:
2004
ISBN:
9780060535261

9780060776091

9780061767647
Publication Information:
New York : HarperCollins, [2004]
Call Number:
HUXLEY
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