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George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is among the most widely read books in the world. For more than 50 years, it has been regarded as a morality tale for the possible future of modern society, a future involving nothing less than extinction of humanity itself. Does Nineteen Eighty-Four remain...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. : |
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[2005] ©2005 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Course Book. |
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George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is among the most widely read books in the world. For more than 50 years, it has been regarded as a morality tale for the possible future of modern society, a future involving nothing less than extinction of humanity itself. Does Nineteen Eighty-Four remain relevant in our new century? The editors of this book assembled a distinguished group of philosophers, literary specialists, political commentators, historians, and lawyers and asked them to take a wide-ranging and uninhibited look at that question. The editors deliberately avoided Orwell scholars in an effort to call forth a fresh and diverse range of responses to the major work of one of the most durable literary figures among twentieth-century English writers. As Nineteen Eighty-Four protagonist Winston Smith has admirers on the right, in the center, and on the left, the contributors similarly represent a wide range of political, literary, and moral viewpoints. The Cold War that has so often been linked to Orwell's novel ended with more of a whimper than a bang, but most of the issues of concern to him remain alive in some form today: censorship, scientific surveillance, power worship, the autonomy of art, the meaning of democracy, relations between men and women, and many others. The contributors bring a variety of insightful and contemporary perspectives to bear on these questions. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781400826643 |
| Index Number: | PR6029 |
| CLC: | I561.074 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Dedicatory Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Abbott Gleason And Martha C. Nussbaum -- A Defense of Poesy (The Treatise of Julia) / Doublespeak and the Minority of One / Of Beasts and Men: Orwell on Beastliness / Does Literature Work as Social Science? The Case of George Orwell / Puritanism and Power Politics during the Cold War: George Orwell and Historical Objectivity / Rorty and Orwell on Truth / From Ingsoc and Newspeak to Amcap, Amerigood, and Marketspeak / Mind Control in Orwell s Nineteen Eighty-Four: Fictional Concepts Become Operational Realities in Jim Jones s Jungle Experiment / Whom Do You Trust? What Do You Count On? / Orwell versus Huxley: Economics, Technology, Privacy, and Satire / On the Internet and the Benign Invasions of Nineteen Eighty-Four / The Self-Preventing Prophecy; or, How a Dose of Nightmare Can Help Tame Tomorrow s Perils / Sexual Freedom and Political Freedom / Sex, Law, Power, and Community / Nineteen Eighty-Four, Catholicism, and the Meaning of Human Sexuality / The Death of Pity: Orwell and American Political Life / Contributors -- Index. |