Gleason / Goldsmith / Nussbaum On Nineteen Eighty-Four

Orwell and Our Future
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2664-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Gleason, Abbott

Goldsmith, Jack

Nussbaum, Martha C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedicatory Foreword by Barbara S. Kirschner, M.D. ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction by Abbott Gleason and Martha C. Nussbaum 1

PART I: POLITICS AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION 11

A Defense of Poesy (The Treatise of Julia) by Elaine Scarry 13
Doublespeak and the Minority of One by Homi K. Bhabha 29
Of Beasts and Men: Orwell on Beastliness by Margaret Drabble 38
Does Literature Work as Social Science? by The Case of George Orwell by Richard A. Epstein 49

PART II: TRUTH, OBJECTIVITY, AND PROPAGANDA 71

Puritanism and Power Politics during the Cold War: George Orwell and Historical Objectivity by Abbott Gleason 73
Rorty and Orwell on Truth by James Conant 86
From Ingsoc and Newspeak to Amcap, Amerigood, and Marketspeak by Edward S. Herman 112

PART III: POLITICAL COERCION 125

Mind Control in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: Fictional Concepts Become Operational Realities in Jim Jones's Jungle Experiment by Philip G. Zimbardo 127
Whom Do You Trust? What Do You Count On? by Darius Rejali 155

PART IV: TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY 181

Orwell versus Huxley: Economics, Technology, Privacy, and Satire by Richard A. Posner 183
On the Internet and the Benign Invasions of Nineteen Eighty-Four by Lawrence Lessig 212
The Self-Preventing Prophecy; or, How a Dose of Nightmare Can Help Tame Tomorrow's Perils by David Brin 222

PART V: SEX AND POLITICS 231

Sexual Freedom and Political Freedom by Cass R. Sunstein 233
Sex, Law, Power, and Community by Robin West 242
Nineteen Eighty-Four, Catholicism, and the Meaning of Human Sexuality by John Haldane 261
CONCLUSION 277
The Death of Pity: Orwell and American Political Life by Martha C. Nussbaum 279

Contributors 301
Index 305

Über Autor(innen)

Abbott Gleason is Barnaby Conrad & Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History at Brown University. He is the author of Totalitarianism: The Inner History of the Cold War. Jack Goldsmith is Professor of Law at Harvard University. He is the author, with Eric Posner, of The Limits of International Law. Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Philosophy Department, Law School, and Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Her books include Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (Cambridge) and Hiding from Humanity (Princeton).