Focusing on dystopian literature, which deals with social aspects, and by contrasting two of the most conspicuous novels among dystopian fictions, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World, the study aims at revealing ...Focusing on dystopian literature, which deals with social aspects, and by contrasting two of the most conspicuous novels among dystopian fictions, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World, the study aims at revealing the manifold patterns of the totalitarian society depicted in these two novels and how these patterns affect on human society. This research highlights two approaches, respectively asceticism and epicureanism, in Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World, and the author will help to argue that chronologically, the society in Nineteen Eighty-Four is the beginning of the imaginary totalitarian world, which will be terminated with the other in Brave New World.展开更多
The centuries before the renewal of both the scientific-philosophical and the everyday thinking were dominated by the Christian way of approaching all the phenomena of human life, love and sexuality not excluded. Howe...The centuries before the renewal of both the scientific-philosophical and the everyday thinking were dominated by the Christian way of approaching all the phenomena of human life, love and sexuality not excluded. However, the tran- scendence-based other-worldly concepts to grasp what happens in human beings-in- the-flesh were challenged by this-worldly concepts, whose explicit or hidden origin was the Epicurean approach to the same phenomena. In my paper, I outline firstly some of the main tenets of Lucretius the Epicurean poet, secondly, I characterize the basic convictions of Christian theological-philosophical writers, in order to present, thirdly, how they influenced each-other in Andreas Capellanus＇ treatise On Love.展开更多
文摘Focusing on dystopian literature, which deals with social aspects, and by contrasting two of the most conspicuous novels among dystopian fictions, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World, the study aims at revealing the manifold patterns of the totalitarian society depicted in these two novels and how these patterns affect on human society. This research highlights two approaches, respectively asceticism and epicureanism, in Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World, and the author will help to argue that chronologically, the society in Nineteen Eighty-Four is the beginning of the imaginary totalitarian world, which will be terminated with the other in Brave New World.
文摘The centuries before the renewal of both the scientific-philosophical and the everyday thinking were dominated by the Christian way of approaching all the phenomena of human life, love and sexuality not excluded. However, the tran- scendence-based other-worldly concepts to grasp what happens in human beings-in- the-flesh were challenged by this-worldly concepts, whose explicit or hidden origin was the Epicurean approach to the same phenomena. In my paper, I outline firstly some of the main tenets of Lucretius the Epicurean poet, secondly, I characterize the basic convictions of Christian theological-philosophical writers, in order to present, thirdly, how they influenced each-other in Andreas Capellanus＇ treatise On Love.
