Complete Essays

Aldous Huxley, 1936-1938

By: Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker (Editor), James Sexton (Editor)

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Hardcover | 14 January 2002

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In this fourth volume of a projected six, Huxley registers his deep misgivings about the course of history in the late 1930s as the world moved toward a second global war. Many of his essays reflect his continuing interest in the conventions of popular culture as well as the philosophy of science and history, particularly as they inform developments in art and politics. But his larger concerns oscillate between empirical science and the particulars of social history, on the one hand, and his need for a grounding of absolute truth that would transcend both. His critique of politics and the prevailing ideologies of fascism and capitalism overlaps with his attempt to locate a foundational truth in a world of change and diversity. He embraced a form of political pacifism that intersected with an increasing attraction to religious quietism and mysticism. And he made a sustained effort to reconcile mystical experience with contemporary theories of physics and the philosophy of science. At their best, Huxley''s essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature. "A remarkable publishing event...beautifully produced and authoritatively edited."—Jeffrey Hart.

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Perusing Volume One, I was struck by the sensitivity and the unerring perception in these unknown reviews, ultimately my most enjoyable reading of the year. -- Robert Craft, conductor and writer on music * Times Literary Supplement, (Books Of The Year, Dec.) *
An important and admirable publishing event. * Atlantic Monthly *
The editors have done their job with commendable thoroughness. -- P.N. Furbank * Times Literary Supplement *
Huxley's political writing is often deliberately perverse. -- Leo Carey * The New Yorker *
Much to enjoy in these volumes...they are important as a document and a window on to the stage in the evolution of his mind. * Economist *
He writes with an easy assurance and a command of classical and modern cross-references. -- Christopher Hitchens * Los Angeles Times *

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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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