| On Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell and Our Future Contributor(s): Gleason, Abbott (Editor), Goldsmith, Jack (Editor), Nussbaum, Martha C. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0691113610 ISBN-13: 9780691113616 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $39.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2005 Annotation: A very strong and attractive work, On "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is a fresh and frontal confrontation of the question of whether Orwell had it right about technology and totalitarianism--or whether the usual clich's and stereotypes about the Orwellian view are right. The result is a very engaging body of thought."--Robert Weisberg, Stanford Law School |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 823.912 |
| LCCN: 2004059507 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.1" W x 9.32" (1.01 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |