George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is among the most widely
read books in the world. For more than 50 years, it has been
regarded as a morality tale for the possible future of modern
society, a future involving nothing less than extinction of
humanity itself. Does "Nineteen Eighty-Four" remain relevant in our
new century? The editors of this book assembled a distinguished
group of philosophers, literary specialists, political
commentators, historians, and lawyers and asked them to take a
wide-ranging and uninhibited look at that question. The editors
deliberately avoided Orwell scholars in an effort to call forth a
fresh and diverse range of responses to the major work of one of
the most durable literary figures among twentieth-century English
writers.
As "Nineteen Eighty-Four" protagonist Winston Smith has
admirers on the right, in the center, and on the left, the
contributors similarly represent a wide range of political,
literary, and moral viewpoints. The Cold War that has so often been
linked to Orwell's novel ended with more of a whimper than a bang,
but most of the issues of concern to him remain alive in some form
today: censorship, scientific surveillance, power worship, the
autonomy of art, the meaning of democracy, relations between men
and women, and many others. The contributors bring a variety of
insightful and contemporary perspectives to bear on these
questions.
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