In fact, the intention becomes unavoidable in our days, since we are witnessing the collapse of the juridical positivism and the endless attempts of academic and political essays to "update," in a modern manner, old ius naturalistic thesis based on or supported by contemporary scientific development which encourages us to forget important determinants of social-capitalist relationships. Our exercise is to provide certain coherence to a group of texts, especially those coming for Marx's work, which can help us having a better understanding of nature. This article is intended to organize and systematize some ideas and understandings of the critical social science in relation to or focused on making contributions to construct a theory on social and political nature of modern law.
Genuine common sense is needed to counter what we have come unthinkingly to accept as common sense the received views that all of us are accustomed to and that we tell ourselves we know are true. Orwell resolutely believed in common sense (he called this his belly-to-earth attitude), but at the same time he recognises that common sense is hard to acquire, and this is because false kinds of common sense saturate society, culture and politics. But an intention as essayists unites them: Like Emerson, Orwell shapes sentences that disconcert and surprise readers he impels us to feel discontented with stock ideas and conventional opinions. The immediate impact of Orwell's sentences and paragraphs is not Emersonian: Emerson is more allusive and harder to fathom from line to line. Self-reliance and non-conformity: these are Emerson's central terms, and they signify Orwell's ambition and activity as a writer of essays as well. In his literary enterprise, if not in his style, he is akin to Ralph Waldo Emerson, for in his essays Orwell exhibits 'man thinking' (Emerson's phrase in 'The American Scholar', 1837), and the Emerson-like creation of unorthodox thinking is his goal. A demanding writer, Orwell requires close attention and incites self-scrutiny. Orwell aims in his essays to make readers more self-conscious, more aware of how we think and feel. He is a great essayist because of the experience he creates for readers - a provocation of the intellect, an education of the intelligence, which includes but exceeds the positions he advocated. But this is not the defining fact about Orwell as a literary figure, as an artist. He took stands on issues he had convictions and expressed his principles. It is not the specific judgements Orwell makes as much as the action of his thinking and the movement of his feeling that distinguish him. The experience of reading George Orwell's essays is special - bracing, illuminating, invigorating.
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