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