1984 and Philosophy: Is Resistance Futile?

ISBN-13: 9780812699791 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

Ezio Nucci; Stefan Storrie

Opis

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

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Are We Living in 1984? A Doubleplusgood Introduction
• 1. Little Knots of ResistanceTRIP MCCROSSIN
• 2. Orwell's Blind Spot-Non-State Enemies of FreedomERIN NASH
• 3. Strength through IgnoranceJAMES CONANT
• 4. Big Brother Ltd.-The Orwellian Nature of Neoliberal PoliticsDARREN BOTELLO-SAMSON AND KAYCE MOBLEY
• 5. Can You Be Happy under Ingsoc?JOSIP CIRIC AND BRUNO CURKO
• 6. Trauma and Betrayal in Nineteen Eighty-FourDANIEL CONWAY
• 7. Exercise as OppressionEZIO DI NUCCI
• 8. Collective Trance and a Hope for SanityISKRA FILEVA
• 9. Dystopian DreamsJAN FRIIS
• 10. Newsleep 24/7-Big Brother's Assault on SleepJASON MATTHEW BUCHANNAN
• 11. Science against Totalitarian IdeologyWILLIAM GOODWIN
• 12. Hangings, Shootings, and Other Funny Stuff in Nineteen Eighty-FourJARNO HIETALAHTI
• 13. Post-Factual DemocracyVINCENT 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
• 16. How the Mass Media Control Our LanguageLAVINIA MARIN
• 17. Controlling the Present, the Past, and the FutureCHRISTOPHER MARKOU AND JAMES CROSSLEY
• 18. Reducing Thought to 140 Characters or LessEDWARDO PEREZ
• 19. Controlling People by Fallacious ReasoningELIZABETH RARD
• 20. Love and Hate in Nineteen Eighty-FourTIMOTHY SANDEFUR
• 21. The Unmaking of the Self in TortureALBA SANCHEZ
• 22. Can Thought Be Controlled Just by Controlling Language?JESSE SCHUPACK
• 23. The Unrelieved Bleakness of Nineteen Eighty-FourOSHRAT C. SILBERBUSCH
• 24. Revolutionary from the Waist DownSTEFAN STORRIE
• 25. Big Brother, We Are Watching You!TORBJORN TANNSJO
• 26. Networks of Trust and DistrustMARK ALFANO
• 27. Oldthinkful Duckspeak Refs Opposites Rewrite Fullwise Upsub AntefilingKEITH BEGLY
• Author Bios
• References
• Index

O autorze

Ezio Di Nucci is Associate Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Before that he was Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Duiburg-Essen in Germany. He is the co-editor with Filippo Santoni de Sio of Drones and Responsibility (Routledge, 2016). He has also written several books, including Ethics without Intention (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Mindlessness (Cambridge Scholars, 2013). Stefan Storrie, currently an independent scholar, has held the position of Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. He is the author of a book on Berkeley's Three Dialogues being released by Routledge in 2018. He has also edited a collection on the Three Dialogues, which is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in early 2018.