LEADER 05292nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910459315803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-66574-X 010 $a9786612665745 010 $a1-4008-2664-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826643 035 $a(CKB)2670000000034908 035 $a(EBL)617523 035 $a(OCoLC)650305538 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000424483 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11250119 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000424483 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10474801 035 $a(PQKB)10814501 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617523 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36228 035 $a(DE-B1597)446515 035 $a(OCoLC)979744897 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826643 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL617523 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10400783 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL266574 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000034908 100 $a20040921d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aOn nineteen eighty-four$b[electronic resource] $eOrwell and our future /$fedited by Abbott Gleason, Jack Goldsmith, and Martha C. Nussbaum 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (329 p.) 300 $aBased on papers from a conference held in 1999. 311 $a0-691-11360-2 311 $a0-691-11361-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tDedicatory Foreword -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction. Abbott Gleason And Martha C . Nussbaum -- $tPart I. Politics and the Literary Imagination -- $tA Defense of Poesy (The Treatise of Julia) / $rScarry, Elaine -- $tDoublespeak and the Minority of One / $rBhabha, Homi K. -- $tOf Beasts and Men: Orwell on Beastliness / $rDrabble, Margaret -- $tDoes Literature Work as Social Science? The Case of George Orwell / $rEpstein, Richard A. -- $tPart II. TRUTH , OBJECTIVITY, AND PROPAGANDA -- $tPuritanism and Power Politics during the Cold War: George Orwell and Historical Objectivity / $rGleason, Abbott -- $tRorty and Orwell on Truth / $rConant, James -- $tFrom Ingsoc and Newspeak to Amcap, Amerigood, and Marketspeak / $rHerman, Edward S. -- $tPart III. POLITICAL COERCION -- $tMind Control in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Fictional Concepts Become Operational Realities in Jim Jones's Jungle Experiment / $rZimbardo, Philip G. -- $tWhom Do You Trust? What Do You Count On? / $rRejali, Darius -- $tPart IV. TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY -- $tOrwell versus Huxley: Economics, Technology, Privacy, and Satire / $rPosner, Richard A. -- $tOn the Internet and the Benign Invasions of Nineteen Eighty-Four / $rLessig, Lawrence -- $tThe Self-Preventing Prophecy; or, How a Dose of Nightmare Can Help Tame Tomorrow's Perils / $rBrin, David -- $tPart V. SEX AND POLITICS -- $tSexual Freedom and Political Freedom / $rSunstein, Cass R. -- $tSex, Law, Power, and Community / $rWest, Robin -- $tNineteen Eighty-Four, Catholicism, and the Meaning of Human Sexuality / $rHaldane, John -- $tCONCLUSION -- $tThe Death of Pity: Orwell and American Political Life / $rNussbaum, Martha C. -- $tContributors -- $tIndex 330 $aGeorge 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. 606 $aScience fiction, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDystopias in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aScience fiction, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDystopias in literature. 676 $a823/.912 686 $a18.05$2bcl 686 $a17.86$2bcl 701 $aGleason$b Abbott$0141003 701 $aGoldsmith$b Jack$01055868 701 $aNussbaum$b Martha Craven$f1947-$0144658 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459315803321 996 $aOn nineteen eighty-four$92489637 997 $aUNINA