{"product_id":"1984-and-philosophy-9780812699791","title":"1984 and Philosophy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough the year 1984 is hurtling back into the distant past, Orwell's novel \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e1984 and Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e brings together brand new, up-to-the-minute thinking by philosophers about \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho'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 rightand did he get some things wrong?  Are social media opportunities for liberation or instruments of oppress\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\t   Are We Living in 1984? A Doubleplusgood Introduction\t    1. Little Knots of Resistance TRIP MCCROSSIN\t   2. Orwell’s Blind Spot—Non-State Enemies of Freedom ERIN NASH   3. Strength through Ignorance JAMES CONANT   4. Big Brother Ltd.—The Orwellian Nature of Neoliberal Politics DARREN BOTELLO-SAMSON AND KAYCE MOBLEY\t   5. Can You Be Happy under Ingsoc? JOSIP CIRIC AND BRUNO CURKO   6. Trauma and Betrayal in Nineteen Eighty-Four DANIEL CONWAY\t   7. Exercise as Oppression EZIO DI NUCCI   8. Collective Trance and a Hope for Sanity ISKRA FILEVA\t   9. Dystopian Dreams JAN FRIIS\t  10. Newsleep 24\/7—Big Brother’s Assault on Sleep JASON MATTHEW BUCHANNAN  11. Science against Totalitarian Ideology WILLIAM GOODWIN  12. Hangings, Shootings, and Other Funny Stuff in Nineteen Eighty-Four JARNO HIETALAHTI  13. Post-Factual Democracy VINCENT HENDRICKS AND MADS VESTERGAARD  14. Could Enhancing Human Capacities Prevent Nineteen Eighty-Four from Happening? POLAROS KOI  15. Why Don’t the Proles Just Take Over? GREG LITTMANN\t  16. How the Mass Media Control Our Language LAVINIA MARIN  17. Controlling the Present, the Past, and the Future CHRISTOPHER MARKOU AND JAMES CROSSLEY  18. Reducing Thought to 140 Characters or Less EDWARDO PEREZ\t  19. Controlling People by Fallacious Reasoning ELIZABETH RARD\t  20. Love and Hate in Nineteen Eighty-Four TIMOTHY SANDEFUR  21. The Unmaking of the Self in Torture ALBA SANCHEZ  22. Can Thought Be Controlled Just by Controlling Language? JESSE SCHUPACK\t  23. The Unrelieved Bleakness of Nineteen Eighty-Four OSHRAT C. SILBERBUSCH  24. Revolutionary from the Waist Down STEFAN STORRIE  25. Big Brother, We Are Watching You! TORBJORN TANNSJO  26. Networks of Trust and Distrust MARK ALFANO  27. Oldthinkful Duckspeak Refs Opposites Rewrite Fullwise Upsub Antefiling KEITH BEGLY\t  Author Bios References Index","brand":"Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359201919319,"sku":"9780812699791","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812699791.jpg?v=1754123964","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/1984-and-philosophy-9780812699791","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}