The First and Last Freedom

The First and Last Freedom
Author(s)	Jiddu Krishnamurti
Country	United States (Published simultaneously in the UK)[1]
Language	English
Subject(s)	Philosophy
Publisher	Harper
Publication date	1954
Media type	Print
Pages	288 pp (first edition)
OCLC Number	964457

The First and Last Freedom is a book by Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986), originally published 1954.

Contents 1 About the work 2 Contents 3 Select editions 4 Reviews 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

About the work

This was the second of Krishnamurti's books to be published by mainstream commercial publishers. According to one source, as of 2006^[update] there had been "36 editions published between 1954 and 2006 in 9 languages and held by 1,566 libraries worldwide".^[2] The foreword^[3] was written by Aldous Huxley, who was a longtime friend of Krishnamurti.^[4]

Contents

The first part of the book has 21 chapters:

1. Introduction
2. What are we seeking?
3. Individual and Society
4. Self-Knowledge
5. Action and Idea
6. Belief
7. Effort
8. Contradiction
9. What is the Self?
10. Fear
11. Simplicity
12. Awareness
13. Desire
14. Relationship and Isolation
15. The Thinker and the Thought
16. Can Thinking solve our problems?
17. The Function of the Mind
18. Self-Deception
19. Self-centered Activity
20. Time and Transformation
21. Power and Realization

The second part of the book has questions and answers from his talks.

Select editions

• Jiddu, Krishnamurti (1954). The First and Last Freedom. Foreword by Aldous Huxley. London: Gollancz. 288 pp. OCLC 59002436.  First UK edition (published simultaneously with the US edition).
•    (1975). The First and Last Freedom. Foreword by Aldous Huxley (reprint ed.). San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco. 288 pp. ISBN 978-0060648312. 
•    (2003). The First and Last Freedom. Foreword by Aldous Huxley. Chennai: Krishnamurti Foundation India. 264 pp. ISBN 978-8187326410. 

Reviews

• Fausset, Hugh I'Anson (14 May 1954). "Bond and Free". The Times Literary Supplement (London: News International): p. 317. ISSN 0307-661X.  Review of the 1st UK edition.

See also

• Jiddu Krishnamurti bibliography

References

External links

• "The First and Last Freedom" (Chapters 2–21) – J. Krishnamurti Online [JKO]. Web document serial no/id: JKO 306. Krishnamurti Foundations. "J. Krishnamurti Online, the official repository of the authentic teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti." Retrieved 2011-03-06.