Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgements v
4. A Cry of Despair or Faith in the “Spirit of Man”?
5. The Orwell Conundrum 1
6. Orwell’s Essays: The Birth of the Adversary 27
7. Orwell’s Fiction: From Psychological Realism to Political Satire 43
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Reconciliation of Political Allegory and Psychological Realism 63
9. Goldstein’s Book: The Key to the Decoding of the Satire: The “Secular Religion” of Totalitarianism
10. Time as Theme and Structure in Dystopian Satire 85
11. Proles, Intellectuals, and the Betrayal of Socialism: Orwell’s Satirical Devices 99
12. Doublethink 117
13. The Demonic World of Oceania: The Persecution of the ‘Satanic’ Opponent 137
14. The Demonic World of Oceania: The Mystical Adulation of the ‘Sacred’ Leader 155
15. Confronting the Demonic in Totalitarianism—Orwell and Contemporarie
16. The Demonic Spiral — Psycho-Historical Interpretations 169
17. The Modern Morality Play of Everyman against the Demonic Forces of Totalitarianism: Thomas Mann, Camus, Sartre, and Orwell on the Theme of Betrayal 189
18. What Turns Utopia into Dystopia? The Terror of Science and the Science of Terror — Huxley and Orwell 203
19. Orwell“s Tragic Humanism
20. The “Spirit of Man”: Orwell’s Response to the ‘Realism’ of Marx, Freud, and the Existentialists 217
21. Orwell’s Concept of the Tragic: The Synthesis of Nineteenth-Century Moral Idealism and Twentieth-Century Realism 245
22. Coming Through the Other Side: The Metamorphosis of Tragic Irony into the Militant Wit of Satire: An Ultimate Faith in the “Spirit of Man”
23. The Structural Function of Newspeak — The Catharsis of Satire 259
24. The Thematic Function of Newspeak: The Reversal of Tragic Irony into the Militant Wit of Satire — Concluding Remarks 277
25. Index 309