Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!gegeweb.org!nntp.cybernetik.net!usenet-01.nntp.cybernetik.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.11.MISMATCH!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news2 From: Michael Wojcik Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Class.forName().newInstance() vs new Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:16:13 -0400 Organization: Micro Focus Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <96f013F46aU4@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: p2fda09cfea0c52dedac618a4af9fcda647fef67260d3ef4f.newsdawg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: <96f013F46aU4@mid.individual.net> Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5585 blmblm@myrealbox.com wrote: > > Someone should perhaps mention, in this context, George Orwell's essay > "Politics and the English Language" [*]? one of my favorites, which > seems to make a similar connection between language and ethics. Yes. A number of authors and poets at the time - coming out of the Modernist avant-garde period, High Literary Modernism, and the world wars - were both very interested in language and very concerned with its political ramifications. Besides Orwell you have for example Anthony Burgess and Aldous Huxley. The idea that language had political effectivity was rather in the air at the time, fed by psychoanalysis; structural linguistics anthropological theories like the (somewhat misnamed) "Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis"; discussions about art, propaganda, and culture among international Marxists; the work of philosophers such as Heidegger; and so on. But Orwell's is a particularly good example in this area. It's certainly a lot more readable than many of the contemporary philosophical treatments. (I like Derrida just fine, but few people would call _Spectres of Marx_, say, a light read.) -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University