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1984 and Philosophy
Author | : Ezio Di Nucci,Stefan Storrie |
Publsiher | : Open Court Publishing |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2018-05-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780812699852 |
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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?
Nineteen Eighty Four
Author | : George Orwell |
Publsiher | : epubli |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2021-01-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783753145136 |
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"Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel", often published as "1984", is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated. The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a totalitarian superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employ the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Outer Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters into a forbidden relationship with a colleague, Julia, and starts to remember what life was like before the Party came to power.
The Philosopher s Annual 1984
Author | : Patrick Grim,C. J. Martin,M. A. Simon |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1986-04 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 091793069X |
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Philosophy in History
Author | : Richard Rorty,Jerome B. Schneewind,Quentin Skinner |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1984-11-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521273307 |
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Lectures delivered as a series at Johns Hopkins University during 1982-83.
The Man of Reason
Author | : Genevieve Lloyd |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2002-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781134862658 |
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This new edition of Genevieve Lloyd's classic study of the maleness of reason in philosophy contains a new introduction and bibliographical essay assessing the book's place in the explosion of writing and gender since 1984.
Philosophy Through Its Past
Author | : Ted Honderich |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 1994-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0140136940 |
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Reasons and Persons
Author | : Derek Parfit |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1986-01-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780191622441 |
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This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will often be disturbing. He concludes that moral non-religious moral philosophy is a young subject, with a promising but unpredictable future.
Reason and the Search for Knowledge
Author | : D. Shapere |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789401097314 |
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An impressive characteristic of Dudley Shapere's studies in the philosophy of the sciences has been his dogged reasonableness. He sorts things out, with logical care and mastery of the materials, and with an epistemological curiosity for the historical happenings which is both critical and respectful. Science changes, and the philosopher had better not link philosophical standards too tightly to either the latest orthodox or the provocative up start in scientific fashions; and yet, as critic, the philosopher must not only master the sciences but also explicate their meanings, not those of a cognitive never-never land. Neither dreamer nor pedant, Professor Shapere has been able to practice the modern empiricist's exercises with the sober and stimulat ing results shown in this volume: he sees that he can be faithful to philosoph ical analysis, engage in the boldest 'rational reconstruction' of theories and experimental measurements, and faithful too, empirically faithful we may say, to both the direct super-highways and the winding pathways of conceptual evolutions and metaphysical revolutions. Not least, Shapere listens! To Einstein and Calileo of course, but to the workings of the engineers and the scientific apprentices too, and to the various philosophers, now and of old, who have also worked to make sense of what has been learned and how that has happened and where we might go wrong.