Inquisitors. George Orwell and political anthropology. Haustov D.

The Grand British writer George Orwell was one of the first to recognize and investigated the phenomena of totalitarianism and ideology, violently blossomed in the tragic XX century. A careful and thoughtful reading of George Orwell's works is a necessary, urgent task for everyone who wants to learn to recognize the dangers that modern society and government regimes are.

The experience of such attentive reading proposes to divide with the reader the historian of philosophy and literature Dmitry Haustov. Continuing the tradition of philosophical commentary, following Benjamin, Agamben and Bibikhin, the author introduces us into the problems of the political thinking of George Orwell and considers his work - and above all, the novel “One thousand nine hundred and eighty -fourth” - as a new word in political anthropology.