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On nineteen eighty-four : Orwell and our future /
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 re...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.