On Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell and Our Future

Dedicatory Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Politics and the Literary Imagination A Defense of Poesy (The Treatise of Julia) Doublespeak and the Minority of One Of Beasts and Men: Orwell on Beastliness Does Literature Work as Social Science? The Case of George Orwell Part II: Truth, Objectivity, and Propaganda Puritanism and Power Politics during the Cold War: George Orwell and Historical Objectivity Rorty and Orwell on Truth From Ingsoc and Newspeak to Amcap, Amerigood, and Marketspeak Part III: Political Coercion Mind Control in Orwell's Nineteen Eigthy-Four: Fictional Concepts Become Operational Realities in Jim Jones's Jungle Experiment Whom Do You Trust? What Do You Count On? Part IV: Technology and Privacy Orwell versus Huxley: Economics, Technology, Privacy, and Satire On the Internet and the Benign Invasions of Nineteen Eighty-Four The Self-Preventing Prophecy; or, How a Dose of Nightmare Can Help Tame Tomorrow's Perils Part V: Sex and Politics Sexual Freedom and Political Freedom Sex, Law, Power, and Community Nineteen Eighty-Four, Catholicism, and the Meaning of Human Sexuality Conclusion The Death of Pity: Orwell and American Political Life Contributors Index