1) “makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.” So I propose to first investigate who Orwell was as a thinker, then I will tackle Orwell and foreign words or rather their uses in specific discourses, and finally I will move from foreign words to the philosophical realm.
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I use the term “philosophy” deliberately although Orwell was not a professional philosopher but a journalist, essayist and a novelist.ĢThe sections about foreign words constitute but a small portion of this article dealing mostly with the “slovenliness of our language” which as Orwell says (p. Since the text was chosen for its references to foreign words used in English I will, of course, deal with this aspect, but I will mostly use the mention of foreign words as an entry point into Orwell’s philosophy.
The focus here will be on two aspects of Orwell’s essay and what it reveals about his political and philosophical views. However, it was written in the same time frame as that political novel which, together with Animal Farm (published in 1945) made Orwell famous and even a household name, which he remains. In recent years, it is curious that Reason has come underĪttack in quarters identified with the Left.ġThe essay by George Orwell entitled “Politics and the English Language” was published in 1946, that is to say three years before his novel 1984. 2 The American Ideology, New York: Routledge, 2004, 13 (discussed 19-23).
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