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Format: 1 online resource (328 pages) : , illustrations.

Edition: Course Book.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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ISBN: 9781400826643

Content: 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.

Note: 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. , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781400826643

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400826643

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400826643

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Format: 1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition: Course Book

ISBN: 1-282-66574-X , 9786612665745 , 1-4008-2664-0

Content: 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.

Note: Based on papers from a conference held in 1999. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Dedicatory Foreword -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction. Abbott Gleason And Martha C . Nussbaum -- , Part I. Politics and the Literary Imagination -- , 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 / , Part II. TRUTH , OBJECTIVITY, AND PROPAGANDA -- , 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 / , Part III. POLITICAL COERCION -- , 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? / , Part IV. TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY -- , 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 / , Part V. SEX AND POLITICS -- , Sexual Freedom and Political Freedom / , Sex, Law, Power, and Community / , Nineteen Eighty-Four, Catholicism, and the Meaning of Human Sexuality / , CONCLUSION -- , The Death of Pity: Orwell and American Political Life / , Contributors -- , Index , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-691-11360-2

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-691-11361-0

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781400826643