Of Beasts and Men: Orwell on Beastliness

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Dedicatory Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction. Abbott Gleason And Martha C . Nussbaum 1
6. Part I. Politics and the Literary Imagination
7. A Defense of Poesy (The Treatise of Julia) 13
8. Doublespeak and the Minority of One 29
9. Of Beasts and Men: Orwell on Beastliness 38
10. Does Literature Work as Social Science? The Case of George Orwell 49
11. Part II. TRUTH , OBJECTIVITY, AND PROPAGANDA
12. Puritanism and Power Politics during the Cold War: George Orwell and Historical Objectivity 73
13. Rorty and Orwell on Truth 86
14. From Ingsoc and Newspeak to Amcap, Amerigood, and Marketspeak 112
15. Part III. POLITICAL COERCION
16. Mind Control in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: Fictional Concepts Become Operational Realities in Jim Jones’s Jungle Experiment 127
17. Whom Do You Trust? What Do You Count On? 155
18. Part IV. TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY
19. Orwell versus Huxley: Economics, Technology, Privacy, and Satire 183
20. On the Internet and the Benign Invasions of Nineteen Eighty-Four 212
21. The Self-Preventing Prophecy; or, How a Dose of Nightmare Can Help Tame Tomorrow’s Perils 222
22. Part V. SEX AND POLITICS
23. Sexual Freedom and Political Freedom 233
24. Sex, Law, Power, and Community 242
25. Nineteen Eighty-Four, Catholicism, and the Meaning of Human Sexuality 261
26. CONCLUSION
27. The Death of Pity: Orwell and American Political Life 279
28. Contributors 301
29. Index 305