Name: Now More Than Ever (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint)
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Author: Aldous Huxley
ISBN: 9780292728660

portada Now More Than Ever (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Aldous Huxley

Publisher

Univ Of Texas Pr

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

123

Format

Paperback

ISBN

292728662

ISBN13

9780292728660

Synopsis "Now More Than Ever (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint)"

Over the course of his career, British writer Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) shifted away from elitist social satires and an atheistic outlook toward greater concern for the masses and the use of religious terms and imagery. This change in Huxley's thinking underlies the previously unpublished play Now More Than Ever. Written in 1932-1933 just after Brave New World, Now More Than Ever is a response to the social, economic, and political upheavals of its time. Huxley's protagonist is an idealistic financier whose grandiose schemes for controlling the means of production drive him to swindling and finally to suicide. His fate allows Huxley to expose the evils he perceives in free-market capitalism while pleading the case for national economic planning and the rationalization of Britain's industrial base. This volume contains the full text of Now More Than Ever, which was believed to be lost until 1976, when a copy was found at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin. A "thinker's play" that has never been produced on stage, it is the last previously unpublished piece of Huxley's major writings and immensely important to understanding his development as a writer. The editors of this volume have annotated the play for contemporary readers. Their introduction sets the play in the context of Huxley's intellectual life.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Leonard Huxley (Godalming, Surrey, 26 de julio de 1894-Los Ángeles, 22 de noviembre de 1963) fue un escritor y filósofo británico que emigró a los Estados Unidos. Miembro de una reconocida familia de intelectuales, es conocido por sus novelas y ensayos, pero publicó también relatos cortos, poesías, libros de viajes y guiones. A través de sus novelas y ensayos, ejerció como crítico de los roles, convenciones, normas e ideales sociales. Se interesó, asimismo, por los temas espirituales, como la parapsicología y el misticismo, acerca de las cuales escribió varios libros. Se le considera uno de los más importantes representantes del pensamiento moderno.

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