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David Lowenthal transposes present society onto that in the novel, 1984 , and illustrates "how the quest for a perfect society led instead to the worst––in the course of revolting against which the true ends of life are established." It is more than suspicion: the year 2021 is 1984. What many understand by instinct, Lowenthal here articulates in clear terms using the political prophesy of this no longer futuristic literature. To be one without truthful unity? This is the picture of human brotherhood ushering in the only thing worse than inequality––enslavement. There is no positive political message in 1984 , argues Lowenthal, but there is positive moral message that is nearly always overlooked by commentators. "Through the movement of the novel, Orwell tries to impress on the passions, hearts and minds of his readers the most valuable lessons concerning the right and wrong way to live. With the decline of Christianity's influence in forming the moral sense of the West and the concomitant increase in power hunger, wielding instruments born of modern enlightenment, what mankind most needed was moral guidance, conveyed not abstractly, through philosophy, but in such a way as to gri

Author

David Lowenthal;

Publisher

Chicago Distribution Center (CDC Presses)

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781587318443