Complete Essays Aldous Huxley, 1936-1938
by Huxley, Aldous; Baker, Robert S.; Sexton, JamesFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-11-05
Publisher(s): Ivan R. Dee
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Summary
Huxley registers his deep misgivings about the course of history in the late 1930s.
Table of Contents
| A Note on This Edition | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Painting, Music, Literature | |
| Writers and Readers | p. 5 |
| T. H. Huxley as a Literary Man | p. 29 |
| Words and Behavior | p. 48 |
| Literature and Examinations | p. 58 |
| Crebillon the Younger | p. 62 |
| D. H. Lawrence | p. 71 |
| B. R. Haydon | p. 91 |
| History, Politics, Social Criticism | |
| Notes on Propaganda | p. 105 |
| Total War and Pacifism | p. 118 |
| A Horrible Dilemma | p. 121 |
| If We Survive | p. 124 |
| The Interpretation of History | p. 126 |
| Race | p. 131 |
| People's Front | p. 134 |
| What Has Happened to the Prudes? | p. 135 |
| How to Improve the World | p. 137 |
| The Man Without a Job | p. 145 |
| Pioneers of Britain's "New Deal" | p. 150 |
| Modern Fetishism | p. 153 |
| English Snobbery | p. 157 |
| New-Fashioned Christmas | p. 159 |
| Waterworks and Kings | p. 161 |
| Efficacy and Limitations of Large-scale Social Reform | p. 162 |
| Social Reform and Violence | p. 168 |
| The Planned Society | p. 172 |
| Nature of the Modern State | p. 187 |
| Centralization and Decentralization | p. 190 |
| Decentralization and Self-government | p. 195 |
| War | p. 208 |
| Individual Work for Reform | p. 232 |
| Inequality | p. 255 |
| Education | p. 265 |
| Science, Philosophy, Religion | |
| Time and the Machine | p. 299 |
| Historical Generalizations | p. 300 |
| Justifications | p. 303 |
| Goals, Roads, and Contemporary Starting-point | p. 329 |
| The Nature of Explanation | p. 335 |
| Religious Practices | p. 338 |
| Beliefs | p. 355 |
| Ethics | p. 388 |
| Travel | |
| In a Tunisian Oasis | p. 409 |
| The Olive Tree | p. 419 |
| Appendix | p. 429 |
| Index | p. 431 |
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