Nineteen Eighty-Four: Science Between Utopia and Dystopia

by Everett Mendelsohn

Book Overview

Just fifty years ago Julian Huxley, the biologist grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, published a book which easily could be seen to represent the prevail- ing outlook among young scientists of the day: If I were a Dictator (1934). The outlook is optimistic, the tone playfully rational, the intent clear - allow science a free hand and through rational planning it could bring order out of the surrounding social chaos. He complained, however: At the moment,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027717214
• ISBN13: 9789027717214
• Release Date: September 1984
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"