Posner does lit-crit

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jan 31 18:10:13 PST 2000


[all you Posner fans out there...]

"Orwell versus Huxley: Economics, Technology, Privacy, and

Satire"

BY: RICHARD A. POSNER

University of Chicago Law School

Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection:

http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=194572

Other Electronic Document Delivery:

http://www.law.uchicago.edu/Publications/Working/

Paper ID: University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law

& Economics Working Paper No. 89

Date: November 1999

Contact: RICHARD A. POSNER

Email: Mailto:paul_choi at law.uchicago.edu

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ABSTRACT:

Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's novel Brave New

World have often been thought prophetic commentaries on

economic, political, and social matters. I argue, with

particular reference to the supposed applicability of these

novels to issues of technology and privacy, that the novels are

best understood as literary works of art, rather than as social

science or commentary, and that when so viewed Orwell's novel in

particular reflects a dissatisfaction with everyday life and a

nostalgia for Romantic values.



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