"This is the first book to focus primarily on George Orwell’s ideas about free speech and related matters – freedom of the press, the writer’s freedom of expression, honesty and truthfulness – and, in particular, the ways in which they are linked to his political vision of socialism. Orwell is...

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1. Verfasser:	Burgess, Glenn 1961- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York ; London Bloomsbury Academic 2023
Schriftenreihe:	Bloomsbury collections
Schlagworte:	Orwell, George > 1903-1950 Sozialismus > Motiv Redefreiheit > Motiv Orwell, George / 1903-1950 / Political and social views Socialism Freedom of speech Politics and literature / Great Britain / History / 20th century Biography: literary,United Kingdom, Great Britain Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Literary studies: from c 1900 - Orwell, George / 1903-1950 Political and social views Politics and literature Great Britain 1900-1999 History
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Zusammenfassung:	"This is the first book to focus primarily on George Orwell’s ideas about free speech and related matters – freedom of the press, the writer’s freedom of expression, honesty and truthfulness – and, in particular, the ways in which they are linked to his political vision of socialism. Orwell is today claimed by the Left and Right, by neo-conservatives and neo-socialists. How is that possible? Part of the answer, as Glenn Burgess reveals, is that Orwell was an odd sort of socialist. The development of Orwell’s socialism was, from the start, conditioned by his individualist and liberal commitments. The hopes he attached to socialism were for a fairer, more equal world that would permit human freedom and individuality to flourish, completing, not destroying, the work of liberalism. Freedom of thought was a central part of this, and its defence and use were essential parts of the struggle to ensure that socialism developed in a liberal, humane form that did not follow the totalitarian path of Soviet communism. Written in celebration of Orwell’s dictum, 'We hold that the most perverse human being is more interesting than the most orthodox gramophone record,' George Orwell's Perverse Humanity is a portrait of Orwell that captures these themes and provides a new understanding of him as a political thinker and activist. Based on archival research and new materials that affirm his work as an activist for freedom, it also uncovers a socialist ideology that has been obscured in just the way that the author feared it would be – associated in many people’s minds with totalitarian unfreedom."
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (x, 268 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781501394690 9781501394683
DOI:	10.5040/9781501394690