Brave New World Redefined Redefining Human Life: Reproductive Technologies and Social Policy Robert H. Blank

Gary B. Ellis

doi:10.2307/1310084

Brave New World Redefined Redefining Human Life: Reproductive Technologies and Social Policy Robert H. Blank

BioScience ◽

10.2307/1310084 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 49-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Gary B. Ellis

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

New World ◽

Human Life ◽

Reproductive Technologies ◽

Brave New World

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Redefining Human Life: Reproductive Technologies and Social Policy

Technology and Culture ◽

10.2307/3104891 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 26 (3) ◽

pp. 676

Author(s):

Joan Rothschild ◽

Robert H. Blank ◽

Rita Arditti ◽

Renate Duelli Klein ◽

Shelley Minden

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

Human Life ◽

Reproductive Technologies

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Redefining Human Life: Reproductive Technologies and Social Policy, Robert H. Blank. Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press. 1984. 270 pp.

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care ◽

10.1017/s0266462300000234 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 463-465

Author(s):

Bernard S. Bloom

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

Human Life ◽

Reproductive Technologies

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Death Existentiality in Philosophical Novels of Aldous Huxley: Culturological Approach

NaUKMA Research Papers. History and Theory of Culture ◽

10.18523/2617-8907.2021.4.22-27 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

pp. 22-27

Author(s):

Iryna Karaeva

Keyword(s):

New World ◽

Human Life ◽

The Novel ◽

Aldous Huxley ◽

Attitude To Death ◽

Cultural Experience ◽

Life And Death ◽

Brave New World ◽

Anthropological Approach ◽

Summer Time

Cultural studies cover the genesis and development of culture as a specific human lifestyle. Its universals are representations of human cultural experience, including humans, their life and death. The meaning of human life, death, and immortality became the main objects for consideration and research at all stages of Aldous Huxley’s literary activity.The analysis of his early philosophical novels and novels that offer an anti-utopian model of culture shows his tendency to destroy his characters in order to defend their personalities, a refusal to accept the patterns of ordinary being, when the man’s will is aimed only at self-preservation and reproduction. To identify this tendency, we studied the novels Crome Yellow, Antic Hay, Point Counter Point, Eyeless in Gaza, After Many a Summer, Time Must Have a Stop, Brave New World, Ape and Essence. At this stage of spiritual search, A. Huxley justifies suicide as a way of self-realization.Having reached the level of the philosophical outlook, A. Huxley proposes and promotes the spiritual ideals of self-improvement, love for neighbour as for ‘another one’, the attitude to death as an existential, which is a certain stage of human existence, not tragic but natural. It is reflected in the novel Island. Thanatology is one of the main subjects at school. The yoga of death is promoted: it treats life and death as a single entity, as a kind of art, which should result in Paranirvana.The article proves that A. Huxley’s stance on the problems of purpose of life, death, and immortality had been changing along with the evolution of his outlook. It is shown how this genesis is reflected in A. Huxley’s literary works. Death in A. Huxley’s works is interpreted via meta-anthropological approach as the existential transcendent being of man.

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