Brave New World Revisited - Softcover

Huxley, Aldous

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060800232 ISBN 13: 9780060800239

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 1965

Synopsis

This first Perennial Library edition (P23) was first published in 1965. It is the second edition published by Harper & Row. Much of the material was first published in Newsday under the title "Tyranny Of the Mind".

When the novel Brave New World first appeared, in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictator­ship seemed a projection into the remote future.
Today the science of thought control has raced far beyond the dreams of Hitler and Stalin. Methods for destroying individual freedom are being rapidly developed, and the pressures to adopt them are becoming increasingly powerful. Now, in one of the most important, fascinating, and frightening books of his career, Aldous Huxley scrutinizes these and other threats to humanity and demonstrates why we may find it virtually impossible to resist them.
With overpowering impact, this book is a chal­lenge to complacency and a plea that mankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late.

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From the Back Cover

When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. Brave New World Revisited is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late.

From the Inside Flap

Huxley checks the progress of his prophecies in his seminar novel Brave New World thirty years after it was first published, covering issues such as overpopulation, propaganda, the art of selling and brainwashing, drugs and political control.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 1965
• ISBN 10: 0060800232
• ISBN 13: 9780060800239
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120