On Nineteen Eighty-Four

Orwell and Our Future

By: Abbott Gleason (Editor), Jack Goldsmith (Editor), Martha C. Nussbaum (Editor)

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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 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.

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"In addition to furthering the dialog about the continued importance of Orwell's novel, this new collection shows how Nineteen Eighty-Four has renewed significance in a post-9/11 world."--Janine Utell, College Literature

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Dedicatory
Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Politics and the Literary Imagination	p. 11
A Defense of Poesy (The Treatise of Julia)	p. 13
Doublespeak and the Minority of One	p. 29
Of Beasts and Men: Orwell on Beastliness	p. 38
Does Literature Work as Social Science? by The Case of George Orwell
Truth, Objectivity, and Propaganda	p. 71
Puritanism and Power Politics during the Cold War: George Orwell and Historical Objectivity	p. 73
Rorty and Orwell on Truth	p. 86
From Ingsoc and Newspeak to Amcap, Amerigood, and Marketspeak	p. 112
Political Coercion	p. 125
Mind Control in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Fictional Concepts Become Operational Realities in Jim Jones's Jungle Experiment	p. 127
Whom Do You Trust? What Do You Count On?
Technology and Privacy	p. 181
Orwell versus Huxley: Economics, Technology, Privacy, and Satire	p. 183
On the Internet and the Benign Invasions of Nineteen Eighty-Four	p. 212
The Self-Preventing Prophecy; or, How a Dose of Nightmare Can Help Tame Tomorrow's Perils
Sex and Politics	p. 231
Sexual Freedom and Political Freedom	p. 233
Sex, Law, Power, and Community	p. 242
Nineteen Eighty-Four, Catholicism, and the Meaning of Human Sexuality	p. 261
Conclusion	p. 277
The Death of Pity: Orwell and American Political Life	p. 279
Contributors	p. 301
Index 305
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