Name: Aldous Huxley and the Enemies of Freedom
ISBN: 978-3-031-57608-9

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Authors:

Uwe Rasch ⁰

Uwe Rasch
1. Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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The first and only book of its kind; Aldous Huxley as an important voice in political thought has not been given due attention so far
Comprehensively and accessibly covers Huxley as a political thinker
Demonstrates the fact that the political is central to Huxley’s thought

Part of the book series: Global Political Thinkers (GPT)

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Keywords

Aldus Huxley
Brave New World
the Peace Pledge Union
democracy
anarchism
decentralisation
authoritarianism
human engineering
social organisation
globalisation
Pacifism
Utopist
Utopia
Utopism

About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Uwe Rasch

About the author

Uwe Rasch is Research Assistant at the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies, and an English teacher at the University of Münster, Germany.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Aldous Huxley and the Enemies of Freedom
Authors: Uwe Rasch
Series Title: Global Political Thinkers
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-57608-9Due: 22 August 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-57609-6Due: 22 August 2024
Series ISSN: 2946-3874
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3882
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 90

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