On Nineteen Eighty-Four : : Orwell and Our Future /

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

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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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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.)
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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

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