On Nineteen Eighty-Four : : Orwell and Our Future / / ed. by Martha C. Nussbaum, Jack Goldsmith, Abbott Gleason.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bhabha, Homi K.,; Brin, David,; Conant, James,; Drabble, Margaret,; Epstein, Richard A.,; Gleason, Abbott,; Haldane, John,; Herman, Edward S.,; Lessig, Lawrence,; Nussbaum, Martha C.,; Posner, Richard A.,; Rejali, Darius,; Scarry, Elaine,; Sunstein, Cass R.,; West, Robin,; Zimbardo, Philip G.,
• HerausgeberIn: Gleason, Abbott,; Goldsmith, Jack,; Nussbaum, Martha C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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