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Liberty, Equality, and Humbug

Orwell's Political Ideals

David Dwan

Liberty, Equality, and Humbug
Liberty, Equality, and Humbug

Liberty, Equality, and Humbug

Orwell's Political Ideals

David Dwan

Hardback / gebonden | Engels
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Omschrijving

A lucid and fluent account of George Orwell's political thought that complicates and challenges the commonplace view and shows how Orwell's fiction allows us to address some of the most fundamental problems of Western political thought, and how literature can be a source of political understanding.

Orwell deserved a brilliant book on him and here it is. By far the most irresistible, searching, and graceful account of our iconic writer and political thinker. A triumph of modern scholarship.

A vivid and valuable reconstruction of Orwell's political thinking. It shines a bright light on his somewhat unsteady service to somewhat unstable ideals. But it still kindles affection for the man.

David Dwan admires Orwell this side of idolatry, and interprets him against a background generous enough to include Adorno and Hayek, Marx and Bentham, Auden and Huxley. The result is a subtle, cogent, and wonderfully well-informed study, most unusual in its treatment of the place of equality in Orwell's thinking and the connection between the practice of freedom and respect for truth.

David Dwan has written a thoughtful and complex book about a thoughtful and complex man who too many think they know too well. In a polarized moment when so much comment veers between hagiography and hate, Liberty, Equality, and Humbug reminds us of a great writer's contradictions and inspires reflection on our own.

An excellent book, beautifully crafted, smart and bold.

A powerful study of Orwell's thought and intellectual shape-shifting.

The figure who emerges from Dwan's interesting book reveals a man who strangely never seemed to trust himself.

[A] perceptive study of George Orwell... Almost 70 years after his death, Orwell's two most important fictions, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, are more relevant than ever... This study allows us to understand him better.

David Dwan is Associate Professor in English at Hertford College, Oxford. He writes on the relationship between literature and intellectual history, particularly moral and political philosophy, from the late eighteenth- to the early twentieth century.

Specificaties

  • Uitgever
    Oxford University Press
  • Verschenen
    okt. 2018
  • Bladzijden
    320
  • Genre
    Literatuurstudies: fictie, romanschrijvers en prozaschrijvers
  • Afmetingen
    240 x 163 x 29 mm
  • Gewicht
    542 gram
  • EAN
    9780198738527
  • Hardback / gebonden
    Hardback / gebonden
  • Taal
    Engels

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