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Aldous Huxley and the Enemies of Freedom
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...
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Euclidean Embodiments in the Twenty-First Century: An Allegorical Ode to Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
An allegorical thought experiment occurring in a pseudo Huxleyean world in the future is conducted, in which “Euclidean” geometry has been forgotten...
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Onkel Aldous
Wenn wir Francis – als Mitglied der Huxley-Dynastie – verstehen und uns dabei nicht auf das beschränken wollen, was sich aus seinen diversen...
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Huxley, Aldous
Enkel des Biologen T. H. Huxley, Großneffe von Matthew Arnold ; Studium in Oxford, ab 1919 literarischer...
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Francis Huxley und die Conditio humana
Als Francis Huxley im Oktober 2016 starb, hinterließen sein Leben und sein Werk eine Reihe unbeantworteter Fragen. Wie also lässt sich seine...
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Feld und Feder: Francis Huxley als Schriftsteller
„Die Schwierigkeit ist, daß die Seltsamkeit des Konstruierens von vorgeblich wissenschaftlichen Texten aus Erfahrungen, die im weitesten Sinne...
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Huxley, Aldous: Point Counter Point
In diesem 1928 erschienenen Roman wird mit den Mitteln der Satire, Ironie und Komik ein skeptisches Bild der englischen Gesellschaft der 1920er Jahre...
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Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
Die negative Utopie (Dystopie oder Anti-Utopie) aus dem Jahr 1932, der fünfte Roman des Autors, gehört in eine Reihe von fortschrittspessimistischen...
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Old Models, New Realities
In October 1949, Aldous Huxley sent a letter to George Orwell, providing a few brief comments on Orwell’s just published novel Nineteen Eighty Four....
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Philosophy of technology for the lost age of freedom: a critical treatise on human essence and uncertain future
All theories of world creation, whether scientific, philosophical, or religious, can readily acknowledge the fact that humans have primarily evolved...
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Speaking Up in a Brave New World: Recontextualizing HRD in Postemotional Society
The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited. Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1932/1965) is a cautionary...
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Huxleyan utopia or Huxleyan dystopia? “Scientific humanism”, Faure’s legacy and the ascendancy of neuroliberalism in education
In addition to the longstanding threat posed by narrow economism, faith in the possibility of peace and progress through democratic politics –...
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From Interwar Idealism Through ‘Perennial Philosophy’: Concluding Reflections
This concluding chapter will help readers better connect the core issues of the present book to not only the larger context of modern Indian...
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Toxic Masculinity, Pseudo-Intellectualism, and “Sexo-Religious Psychology” in Mortal Coils
This chapter focuses on Mortal Coils (1922), Huxley’s second and most accomplished book of short stories. It analyzes the following works: “The...
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Irony, Popular Art, and Progressive Education in Little Mexican
This chapter explores Little Mexican and Other Stories (1924), Huxley’s third book of short fiction. It analyzes the following stories: “Little...
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Aldous Huxley: The Political Theologian
This chapter argues that we should think of Aldous Huxley as a political theologian, but that in order to do so we need to take literary aesthetics...
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The Neuroethics of Beauty: Insights from Aldous Huxley’s Theory of Knowledge
In this chapter, I delve into the role of beauty in the understanding of human behavior, and, to carry this out, I will present some of Huxley’s...
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Uncollected Stories
This chapter focuses on Huxley’s uncollected short fiction, which appeared only in magazines during his lifetime and which James Sexton republished...