{"product_id":"on-nineteen-eighty-four-orwell-and-our-future-paperback-3","title":"On Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell and Our Future - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAbbott Gleason\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJack Goldsmith\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMartha C. Nussbaum\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Orwell's \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA very strong and attractive work, On \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e is a fresh and frontal confrontation of the question of whether Orwell had it right about technology and totalitarianism--or whether the usual clichés and stereotypes about the Orwellian view are right. The result is a very engaging body of thought.\"\u003cb\u003e--Robert Weisberg, Stanford Law School\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbbott Gleason\u003c\/b\u003e is Barnaby Conrad \u0026amp; Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History at Brown University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eTotalitarianism: The Inner History of the Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eJack Goldsmith\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Law at Harvard University. He is the author, with Eric Posner, of \u003ci\u003eThe Limits of International Law\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eMartha C. Nussbaum\u003c\/b\u003e is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Philosophy Department, Law School, and Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Her books include \u003ci\u003eUpheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge) and \u003ci\u003eHiding from Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 9.32 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 29, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47336363000057,"sku":"9780691113616","price":80.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/5atQdubiFt9780691113616_b377941c-b042-486f-81fc-c05d9e15322d.webp?v=1769667474","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/on-nineteen-eighty-four-orwell-and-our-future-paperback-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}