On nineteen eighty-four : Orwell and our future

The Resource On nineteen eighty-four : Orwell and our future
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On nineteen eighty-four : Orwell and our future
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Orwell and our future
Statement of responsibility
edited by Abbott Gleason, Jack Goldsmith, and Martha C. Nussbaum
Title variation
On 1984
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Language
eng
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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N$T
Dewey number
823/.912
Index
index present
LC call number
PR6029.R8
LC item number
N64326 2005eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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