Overview

Although the year 1984 is hurtling back into the distant past, Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four continues to have a huge readership and to help shape the world of 2084. Sales of Orwell's terrifying tale have recently spiked because of current worries about alternate facts, post-truth, and fake news. 1984 and Philosophy brings together brand new, up-to-the-minute thinking by philosophers about Nineteen Eighty-Four as it relates to today's culture, politics, and everyday life. Some of the thinking amounts to thoughtcrime, but we managed to sneak it past the agents of the Ministry of Truth, so this is a book to be read quickly before the words on the page mysteriously transform into something different. Who's controlling our lives and are they getting even more levers to control us? Is truth objective or just made up? What did Orwell get right-and did he get some things wrong? Are social media opportunities for liberation or instruments of oppression? How can we fight back against totalitarian control? Can Big Brother compel us to love him? How does the language we use affect the way we think? Do we really need the unifying power of hate? Why did Orwell make Nineteen Eighty-Four so desperately hopeless? Can science be protected from poisonous ideology? Can we really believe two contradictory things at once? Who surveils the surveilors?

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Author:   Ezio Di Nucci ,  Stefan Storrie
Publisher:   Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
Imprint:   Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
Volume:   116
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780812699791

ISBN 10:   0812699793
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   05 July 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Are We Living in 1984? A Doubleplusgood Introduction 1. Little Knots of Resistance TRIP MCCROSSIN 2. Orwell's Blind Spot-Non-State Enemies of Freedom ERIN NASH 3. Strength through Ignorance JAMES CONANT 4. Big Brother Ltd.-The Orwellian Nature of Neoliberal Politics DARREN BOTELLO-SAMSON AND KAYCE MOBLEY 5. Can You Be Happy under Ingsoc? JOSIP CIRIC AND BRUNO CURKO 6. Trauma and Betrayal in Nineteen Eighty-Four DANIEL CONWAY 7. Exercise as Oppression EZIO DI NUCCI 8. Collective Trance and a Hope for Sanity ISKRA FILEVA 9. Dystopian Dreams JAN FRIIS 10. Newsleep 24/7-Big Brother's Assault on Sleep JASON MATTHEW BUCHANNAN 11. Science against Totalitarian Ideology WILLIAM GOODWIN 12. Hangings, Shootings, and Other Funny Stuff in Nineteen Eighty-Four JARNO HIETALAHTI 13. Post-Factual Democracy VINCENT HENDRICKS AND MADS VESTERGAARD 14. Could Enhancing Human Capacities Prevent Nineteen Eighty-Four from Happening? POLAROS KOI 15. Why Don't the Proles Just Take Over? GREG LITTMANN 16. How the Mass Media Control Our Language LAVINIA MARIN 17. Controlling the Present, the Past, and the Future CHRISTOPHER MARKOU AND JAMES CROSSLEY 18. Reducing Thought to 140 Characters or Less EDWARDO PEREZ 19. Controlling People by Fallacious Reasoning ELIZABETH RARD 20. Love and Hate in Nineteen Eighty-Four TIMOTHY SANDEFUR 21. The Unmaking of the Self in Torture ALBA SANCHEZ 22. Can Thought Be Controlled Just by Controlling Language? JESSE SCHUPACK 23. The Unrelieved Bleakness of Nineteen Eighty-Four OSHRAT C. SILBERBUSCH 24. Revolutionary from the Waist Down STEFAN STORRIE 25. Big Brother, We Are Watching You! TORBJORN TANNSJO 26. Networks of Trust and Distrust MARK ALFANO 27. Oldthinkful Duckspeak Refs Opposites Rewrite Fullwise Upsub Antefiling KEITH BEGLY Author Bios References Index

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Ezio Di Nucci is Associate Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Before that he was Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Duiburg-Essen in Germany. He is the co-editor with Filippo Santoni de Sio of Drones and Responsibility (Routledge, 2016). He has also written several books, including Ethics without Intention (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Mindlessness (Cambridge Scholars, 2013). Stefan Storrie, currently an independent scholar, has held the position of Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. He is the author of a book on Berkeley's Three Dialogues being released by Routledge in 2018. He has also edited a collection on the Three Dialogues, which is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in early 2018.

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