On nineteen eighty-four Orwell and our future
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- ISBN: 0691113610 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 9780691113616 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 0691113602 (acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 9780691113609 (acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 0691113610 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 0691113602 (acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 1400826640 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781400826643 (electronic bk.)
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electronic resource
1 online resource (xiv, 312 p.)
remote - Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.
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General Note: | CatBulkString:sept.20.12 CatMonthString:jun.14 Multi-User. Based on papers from a conference held in 1999. Multi-user. Terms of use - |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction / Abbott Gleason, Martha C. Nussbaum -- A defense of poesy (the treatise of Julia) / Elaine Scarry -- Doublespeak and the minority of one / Homi K. Bhabha -- Of beasts and men: Orwell on beastliness / Margaret Drabble -- Does literature work as social science?: the case of George Orwell / Richard A. Epstein -- Puritanism and power politics during the cold war: George Orwell and historical objectivity / Abbott Gleason -- Rorty and Orwell on truth / James Conant -- From Ingsoc and Newspeak to Amcap, Amerigood, and Marketspeak / Edward S. Herman -- Mind control in Orwell's nineteen eighty-four: fictional concepts become operational realities in Jim Jones's jungle experiment / Philip G. Zimbardo -- Who do you trust? What do you count on? / Darius Rejali --Orwell versus Huxley: economics, technology, privacy, and satire / Richard A. Posner -- On the internet and the benign invasions of nineteen eighty-four / Lawrence Lessig -- The self-preventing prophecy; or, How a dose of nightmare can help tame tomorrow's perils / David Brin -- Sexual freedom and political freedom / Cass R. Sunstein -- Sex, law, power, and community / Robin West -- Nineteen eighty-four, catholicism, and the meaning of human sexuality / John Haldane -- The death of pity: Orwell and American political life / Martha C. Nussbaum. |
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