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ON NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
ORWELL AND OUR FUTURE |
| By: |
Prof. Abbott Gleason (Editor), Jack L. Goldsmith (Editor), Martha C. Nussbaum (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£35.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0691113602 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691113609 |
| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
9 May, 2005 |
| Pages: |
328 |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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