On nineteen eighty-four : Orwell and our future / edited by Abbott Gleason, Jack Goldsmith, and Martha C. Nussbaum
- Additional Titles
- On 1984
- Published
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2005]
- Copyright Date
- ©2005
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages)
- Additional Creators
- Gleason, Abbott, Goldsmith, Jack, and Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947-
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- Contents
- Introduction / Abbott Gleason, Martha C. Nussbaum -- A defense of poesy (the treatise of Julia) / Elaine Scarry -- Doublespeak and the minority of one / Homi K. Bhabha -- Of beasts and men: Orwell on beastliness / Margaret Drabble -- Does literature work as social science?: the case of George Orwell / Richard A. Epstein -- Puritanism and power politics during the cold war: George Orwell and historical objectivity / Abbott Gleason -- Rorty and Orwell on truth / James Conant -- From Ingsoc and Newspeak to Amcap, Amerigood, and Marketspeak / Edward S. Herman -- Mind control in Orwell's nineteen eighty-four: fictional concepts become operational realities in Jim Jones's jungle experiment / Philip G. Zimbardo -- Who do you trust? What do you count on? / Darius Rejali --Orwell versus Huxley: economics, technology, privacy, and satire / Richard A. Posner -- On the internet and the benign invasions of nineteen eighty-four / Lawrence Lessig -- The self-preventing prophecy; or, How a dose of nightmare can help tame tomorrow's perils / David Brin -- Sexual freedom and political freedom / Cass R. Sunstein -- Sex, law, power, and community / Robin West -- Nineteen eighty-four, catholicism, and the meaning of human sexuality / John Haldane -- The death of pity: Orwell and American political life / Martha C. Nussbaum.
- Summary
- George Orwell's nineteen Eighty-Fours 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 nineteeFour remainourremain 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 EAs nineteenters. AsNineteen Eighty-Fourprotagonist 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.
- Subject(s)
- Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Nineteen eighty-four
- Orwell, George
- Nineteen eighty-four (Orwell, George)
- Nineteen eighty-four
- Science fiction, English—History and criticism
- Dystopias in literature
- Dystopies dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM—European—English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Science fiction, English
- Science fiction
- Nineteen eighty-four (Orwell)
- Toekomstverwachtingen
- Dystopie
- Letterkunde
- Newspeak
- Chicago <Ill., 1999>.
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781400826643 (electronic bk.)
1400826640 (electronic bk.)
9780691113609 (acid-free paper)
0691113602 (acid-free paper)
9780691113616 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
0691113610 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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