| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages) |
| Note |
Based on papers from a conference held in 1999. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
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Print version record. |
| Subject |
Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Nineteen eighty-four.
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Nineteen eighty-four (Orwell, George) (OCoLC)fst01356950
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Orwell, George.
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Nineteen eighty-four.
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Science fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Dystopias in literature.
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1903-1950.
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History and criticism.
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Nineteen eighty-four.
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Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
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Science fiction, English.
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Literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Dystopias in literature. (OCoLC)fst00900374
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Science fiction, English. (OCoLC)fst01108670
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Science fiction.
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Nineteen eighty-four (Orwell)
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Toekomstverwachtingen.
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Dystopie.
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Letterkunde.
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Newspeak.
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Chicago <Ill., 1999>.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Gleason, Abbott.
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Goldsmith, Jack.
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Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947-
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On 1984 |
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Print version: On nineteen eighty-four. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005 9780691113616 (DLC) 2004059507 (OCoLC)56614295 |
| ISBN |
9781400826643 (electronic bk.) |
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1400826640 (electronic bk.) |
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