1984 And Philosophy

Author : Ezio Di Nucci,Stefan Storrie
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812699852

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1984 and Philosophy by Ezio Di Nucci,Stefan Storrie Pdf

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?

Author : Ezio Di Nucci,Stefan Storrie
Publisher : Popular Culture and Philosophy
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literature
ISBN : 0812699793

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1984 and Philosophy by Ezio Di Nucci,Stefan Storrie Pdf

Philosophers debate how Orwell's nightmare world compares to today's world of political acrimony and discontent.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : epubli
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783753145136

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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Pdf

"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.

Author : Richard Rorty,Jerome B. Schneewind,Quentin Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1984-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0521273307

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Philosophy in History by Richard Rorty,Jerome B. Schneewind,Quentin Skinner Pdf

Lectures delivered as a series at Johns Hopkins University during 1982-83.

Author : Ted Honderich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0140136940

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Philosophy Through Its Past by Ted Honderich Pdf

Author : Genevieve Lloyd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134862658

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The Man of Reason by Genevieve Lloyd Pdf

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.

Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674744028

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Public Philosophy by Michael J. Sandel Pdf

In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between rich and poor, the role of markets, and the place of religion in public life. He argues that the most prominent ideals in our political life--individual rights and freedom of choice--do not by themselves provide an adequate ethic for a democratic society. Sandel calls for a politics that gives greater emphasis to citizenship, community, and civic virtue, and that grapples more directly with questions of the good life. Liberals often worry that inviting moral and religious argument into the public sphere runs the risk of intolerance and coercion. These essays respond to that concern by showing that substantive moral discourse is not at odds with progressive public purposes, and that a pluralist society need not shrink from engaging the moral and religious convictions that its citizens bring to public life.

Author : Derek Parfit
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1986-01-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191622441

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Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit Pdf

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.

Author : D. Shapere
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401097314

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Reason and the Search for Knowledge by D. Shapere Pdf

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.

Author : I.C. Jarvie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317401179

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Rationality and Relativism by I.C. Jarvie Pdf

Anthropology revolves round answers to problems about the nature, development and unity of mankind; problems that are both philosophical and scientific. In this book, first published in 1984, Professor Jarvie applies Popper’s philosophy of science to understanding the history and theory of anthropology. Jarvie describes how the ancient view that the aim of science and philosophy was to get at the truth is challenged in anthropology by the doctrine of cultural relativism; that is, that truth varies with the cultural framework. He shows how philosophers as various as Peter Winch, W.V.O. Quine, W.T. Jones, Nelson Goodman and Richard Rorty were influenced by this doctrine. Yet these philosophers also accept the value of rational argument. Jarvie believes that there is a contradiction between relativism and any notion of human rationality that centres around argument. Forced by the contradiction to choose between rationality and relativism, he argues strongly that logical, scientific and moral considerations favour rationality and urge repudiation of relativism. The central argument of the book is that relativism is intellectually disastrous and has fostered intellectual attitudes from which anthropology still suffers.

Author : Hans Jonas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226405971

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The Imperative of Responsibility by Hans Jonas Pdf

Hans Jonas here rethinks the foundations of ethics in light of the awesome transformations wrought by modern technology: the threat of nuclear war, ecological ravage, genetic engineering, and the like. Though informed by a deep reverence for human life, Jonas's ethics is grounded not in religion but in metaphysics, in a secular doctrine that makes explicit man's duties toward himself, his posterity, and the environment. Jonas offers an assessment of practical goals under present circumstances, ending with a critique of modern utopianism.

Author : Jeffery Nicholas
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812697155

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Dune and Philosophy by Jeffery Nicholas Pdf

Frank Herbert's Dune is the biggest-selling science fiction story of all time; the original book and its numerous sequels have transported millions of readers into the alternate reality of the Duniverse. Dune and Philosophy raises intriguing questions about the Duniverse in ways that will be instantly meaningful to fans. Those well-known characters--Paul Atreides, Baron Harkkonen, Duncan Idaho, Stilgar, the Bene Gesserit witches--come alive again in this fearless philosophical probing of some of life's most basic questions. Dune presents us with a vast world in which fanaticism is merciless and history is made by the interplay of ruthless conspiracies. Computers have long been outlawed, so that the abilities of human beings are developed to an almost supernatural level. The intergalactic empire controlled by a privileged aristocracy raises all the old questions of human interaction in a strange yet weirdly familiar setting. Do secret conspiracies direct the future course of human political evolution? Can manipulation of the gene pool create a godlike individual? Are strife and bloodshed essential to progress? Can we know so much about the future that we lose the power to make a difference? Does reliance on valuable resources--such as "spice," oil, and water--place us at the mercy of those who can destroy those resources? When gholas are reconstructed from the cells of dead people and given those people's memories, is the ghola the dead person resurrected? Can the exploitation of religion for political ends be reduced to a technique? Philosophers who are fans of Dune will trek through the desert of the Duniverse seeing answers to these and other questions.

Author : Patrick Grim,C. J. Martin,M. A. Simon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1986-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 091793069X

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The Philosopher's Annual, 1984 by Patrick Grim,C. J. Martin,M. A. Simon Pdf

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1986-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0253203988

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Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language by Umberto Eco Pdf

"Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature . . . this collection can be read with pleasure by those unversed in semiotic theory." —Times Literary Supplement

Author : J. M. Bernstein
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816613045

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The Philosophy of the Novel by J. M. Bernstein Pdf

Lukács's Theory of the novel has long been a key work in the philosophy but not the sociology of literature. J. M. Bernstein shows that Theory of the Novel must be seen in conjunction with History and Class Consciousness as a major contribution to a Marxist hermeneutics. He ties the philosophy of Lukács to Kant, Hegel, and Marx and contends that the categories structuring the novel are the central concepts of Kant's philosophy and that, therefore, the novel is marked by the same antinomies that infect Kant's system. Bernstein offers a concise account of dialectical theory and a telling analysis of Western (Hegelian) Marxism. He concludes with a critique of contemporary literary and critical practices, practices which only reinforce the antimonies already present in the novel. --From cover.