Naslov
Monstrum in Animo : George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as the Final Consequence of Political Idealism

Autori
Ivanković, Blaž

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Ocjenski radovi, diplomski rad, diplomski

Fakultet
Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu

Mjesto
Zagreb

Datum
03.09

Godina
2021

Stranica
56

Mentor
Polak, Iva

Ključne riječi
George Orwell, 1984, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Sowell, Michael Malice, Jordan B. Peterson, Eugene D. Genovese, totalitarianism, political idealism, Luciferianism, the Cathedral, Platonism, Marxism, solipsism, Gayatri C. Spivak

Sažetak
George Orwell’s most renowned masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four is not only a critique of totalitarianism as it occurred in history, but also a depiction of totalitarianism as it is to occur should the logic of its being ever reach its final conclusion. In order to understand the inner logic of totalitarian ideology, one needs to examine the principle driving it forward, which is political idealism, i.e. the willingness to impose the idealist vision of the world upon reality as it is. As this vision is completely devoid of the constraints of external reality, its self-referencing character at some point develops a solipsist essence, which in turn seeks to corrupt the minds of others so that it could gain some sense of legitimacy, as it is not able to do so on terms of external reality itself. As the idealist vision spreads among other minds, it develops into what Orwell’s novel terms collective solipsism. The first philosophic concoctions of idealism in the form of collective solipsism can historically be observed in Marxian and Hegelian thought. At the core of political idealism is the inability of the thinking being to deal with external reality as it is, thus imposing a vision of a world in which it would not have to suffer, deeming that world the world as it “should be” and consequently taking revenge upon the world as it is, as well as life itself, in the process. The phenomenon of totalitarianism as depicted in Nineteen Eighty-Four can also be observed as a direct consequence of the phenomenon of the so-called death of God, since the being of God signifies the ultimate embodiment of external reality.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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