Einband gross Aldous Huxley and the Enemies of Freedom

Aldous Huxley and the Enemies of Freedom

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Rasch, Uwe

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90 Seiten

Englisch

Springererscheint am25.12.20241st ed. 2024

This is the first book to cover the evolution and scope of Aldous Huxley´s socio-political ideas in a concise and highly accessible manner, both for political theorists and interested students from various disciplines. From his social journalism in the early 1930s, through his notoriously famous novel Brave New World, his involvement with the Peace Pledge Union in the mid-30s, his pivotal socio-anthropological study Ends and Means in 1937, his post-war essays, the black dystopia Ape and Essence, his involvement with Eastern philosophy and Krishnamurti, his lecture circuits in the 1950s (Santa Barbara, MIT, etc.) to his final novel, Island (1962), the counter-piece to Brave New World, the author explores how Huxley investigates the benefits and risks of democracy, anarchism, decentralisation, forms of authoritarianism, human engineering (education), the ideological pitfalls of the grand narratives of the early 20th century, as well as the anthropological dimensions underpinning social ideals and their means of realisation.mehr

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KlappentextThis is the first book to cover the evolution and scope of Aldous Huxley´s socio-political ideas in a concise and highly accessible manner, both for political theorists and interested students from various disciplines. From his social journalism in the early 1930s, through his notoriously famous novel Brave New World, his involvement with the Peace Pledge Union in the mid-30s, his pivotal socio-anthropological study Ends and Means in 1937, his post-war essays, the black dystopia Ape and Essence, his involvement with Eastern philosophy and Krishnamurti, his lecture circuits in the 1950s (Santa Barbara, MIT, etc.) to his final novel, Island (1962), the counter-piece to Brave New World, the author explores how Huxley investigates the benefits and risks of democracy, anarchism, decentralisation, forms of authoritarianism, human engineering (education), the ideological pitfalls of the grand narratives of the early 20th century, as well as the anthropological dimensions underpinning social ideals and their means of realisation.

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ISBN/GTIN978-3-031-57608-9

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartGebunden

Verlag

Springer

Erscheinungsjahr2024

Erscheinungsdatum25.12.2024

Auflage1st ed. 2024

ReiheGlobal Political Thinkers

Seiten90 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch