12/30/2023 0 Comments A brave new world revisitedChapters include Propaganda in a Democratic Society, The Arts of Selling, Brainwashing, Chemical Persuasion, Hypnopaedia, and Education For Freedom. 132 pages, with a reading time of 2.25 hours (33,172 words), and first published in 1958. Brave New World Revisted is not a reissue or revision of the novel Brave New World, it is a nonfiction exploration of its themes. Huxley examines the ways in which Big Business and political propaganda have already established a "psychological slave trade" in addition to many other "Brave New World techniques" which increasingly threaten the freedom of the individual. Brave New World Revisited is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late. Nearly thirty years later in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley checked the progress. In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Published 28 years after Huxley’s nightmarish masterpiece, Brave New World Revisited contains a concise analysis of how the author's grotesque vision of the future has, in many ways, already come to fruition. Random House, Literary Collections - 176 pages. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by Asprey. Huxley ends the book with a call to reeducate ourselves in the lessons of individual liberty and democracy and instill them in the next generation without. $975.00 Item Number: 139743įirst edition of Huxley’s classic work revisiting the premises of his iconic dystopian and prophetic novel, published 28 years earlier, and how this vision has come to fruition.
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