“Community, Identity, Stability”: The Scientific Society and the Future of Religion in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 83-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brad Congdon
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
Scientific Society ◽  
The Future ◽  
Brave New World

scholarly journals "Some Ovid of the Films": W. B. Yeats, Mass Media, and the Future of Poetry in the 1930s

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-63
Author(s):  
Charles I. Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
New World ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Future ◽  
Table Talk ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
The Way

This essay addresses Yeats’s negotiation of poetry’s relationship, during the 1930s, with the emerging mass culture. Rather than contextualizing Yeats’s view on the future with a traditional critical framework such as Romantic apocalyptical discourse, a closeness to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and dystopian novels is explored. The main focus is on an unfinished draft for A Vision, “Michael Robartes Foretells,” and the way it envisages the changing situation for literature at the end of an epoch. Yeats’s use of classical parallels and linking of poetry and cinema are given special attention. His suggestion that the poetry of the future may be affected by the emergent medium of cinema provides an ambivalent perspective, not simply suggesting the degeneration of poetry in a context of Americanized mass culture but also possibilities of metamorphosis and spirituality. The interpretation of “Michael Robartes Foretells” is framed by other examples of Yeats’s engagement with mass media in the 1930s, in the form of Virginia Woolf’s diary report of table talk and Yeats’s radio broadcasts. All in all, Yeats’s view on poetry’s position balances between a conservative fear of marginalization and a more hopeful view of its potential to reinvent itself in a new historical context.

scholarly journals Humans and humanity at a crossroads, reading Huxley’s brave new world in light of harari’s homo deus

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-126
Author(s):  
Reimundus Raymond Fatubun
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Lower Castes ◽  
History Book

We don't know where humanity is going. It's challenging to keep up with the rapid advancements in science and technology. In real life, both true and fictional 'truths' play important roles. Huxley's utopian/dystopian novel Brave New World (BNW) depicts a possible future for humanity through his description of a society organized and controlled through the use of science. A contemporary history book, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (HD), also discusses the potential of humanity facing extinction in the future. This discussion employs HD to shed light on BNW, using Marxist and New Historicist arguments. Its goals are to analyze the irony in the works, the threat to invention and creativity, oligarchy and hedonism, the name allusions in the works, and the future prospect of engeneered homo sapiens as eternal working classes. The research discovered that both books are based on humanism, but humans are not treated as they should, that the lower castes in BNW cannot become innovative and creative because they are engineered, that the small oligarchy (the Alphas) maintains its power by providing pleasures for the lower castes so as to forget that they are being controlled.

Conclusion Human rights in a brave new world: the shape of things to come?

2020 ◽  
pp. 263-274
Author(s):  
Fred Powell
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
New World ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Individual Liberty ◽  
The Future ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Right

This chapter explores the political context of human rights and how it is shaping the future. It argues that human rights constitute the very substance of democracy by conferring a universal set of rights on the citizen, arguing that Hannah Arendt’s famous phrase ‘the right to have rights’ defines the complex relationship between democracy, human rights and civil society. It discusses how human rights embracing both individual liberty and social justice have been historically contested and critically assesses the state of human rights in today’s world along with the potential threats and opportunities for human rights development into the future. The chapter concludes by arguing that the restoration of a universal welfare state, as the embodiment of human rights in a globalised world, arguably should be the priority for the future of democracy in the twenty-first century.

THE CRISIS OF GLOBAL NEOLIBERALISM AND EDUCATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 15-25
Author(s):  
Adam Rosół
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Social World ◽  
Xxth Century ◽  
Future Role ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Instrumental Role

Visible crisis of neoliberalism prescribes to reflect about the present as well as the future role of education in societies. In Europe for centuries education have been very often used as a tool by authors and executors of ideas and projects of how to construct a social world. That way was also with the project connecting extreme individualism of the counterculture revolution in the sixties and neoliberal economic revolution in the following decades of the XXth century. The project which leads to a domination of global neoliberalism. Authors of constructivistic projects willingly use education to realize their goals. The main point of the text concerns the possibility of freeing education from its instrumental role in realizing different projects of the brave new world.

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