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1984 and Philosophy
Is Resistance Futile?
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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.
Philosophers debate how Orwell's nightmare world compares to today's world of political acrimony and discontent.
- Acknowledgments
- Are We Living in 1984? A Doubleplusgood Introduction
- 1. Little Knots of ResistanceTRIP MCCROSSIN
- 2. Orwell's Blind Spot-Non-State Enemies of FreedomERIN NASH
- 3. Strength through IgnoranceJAMES CONANT
- 4. Big Brother Ltd.-The Orwellian Nature of Neoliberal PoliticsDARREN BOTELLO-SAMSON AND KAYCE MOBLEY
- 5. Can You Be Happy under Ingsoc?JOSIP CIRIC AND BRUNO CURKO
- 6. Trauma and Betrayal in Nineteen Eighty-FourDANIEL CONWAY
- 7. Exercise as OppressionEZIO DI NUCCI
- 8. Collective Trance and a Hope for SanityISKRA FILEVA
- 9. Dystopian DreamsJAN FRIIS
- 10. Newsleep 24/7-Big Brother's Assault on SleepJASON MATTHEW BUCHANNAN
- 11. Science against Totalitarian IdeologyWILLIAM GOODWIN
- 12. Hangings, Shootings, and Other Funny Stuff in Nineteen Eighty-FourJARNO HIETALAHTI
- 13. Post-Factual DemocracyVINCENT 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 LanguageLAVINIA MARIN
- 17. Controlling the Present, the Past, and the FutureCHRISTOPHER MARKOU AND JAMES CROSSLEY
- 18. Reducing Thought to 140 Characters or LessEDWARDO PEREZ
- 19. Controlling People by Fallacious ReasoningELIZABETH RARD
- 20. Love and Hate in Nineteen Eighty-FourTIMOTHY SANDEFUR
- 21. The Unmaking of the Self in TortureALBA SANCHEZ
- 22. Can Thought Be Controlled Just by Controlling Language?JESSE SCHUPACK
- 23. The Unrelieved Bleakness of Nineteen Eighty-FourOSHRAT C. SILBERBUSCH
- 24. Revolutionary from the Waist DownSTEFAN STORRIE
- 25. Big Brother, We Are Watching You!TORBJORN TANNSJO
- 26. Networks of Trust and DistrustMARK ALFANO
- 27. Oldthinkful Duckspeak Refs Opposites Rewrite Fullwise Upsub AntefilingKEITH BEGLY
- Author Bios
- References
- Index
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?
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?