Jonathan Swift and philosophy / edited by Janelle Pötzsch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pötzsch, Janelle, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745--Philosophy.

Swift, Jonathan.

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xi, 260 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]

Summary:

Jonathan Swift and Philosophy is the first book to analyze and interpret Swift's writing from a philosophical angle. By placing key texts of Swift in their philosophical and cultural contexts and providing background to their history of ideas, it demonstrates how well-informed Swift's criticism of the politics, philosophy, and science of his era actually was. Moreover, it also sets straight preconceptions about Swift as ignorant about the scientific developments of his time. This book will be of interest to scholars of philosophy, history of ideas, and eighteenth-century literature and culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

Ethics and social philosophy. Michael Hauskeller: Topsyturvy: Jonathan Swift on human nature, reason, and morality

Chris A. Kramer: How Socratic is Swift's irony?

Will Desmond: Gulliver among the cynics

Steve Van Hagen: "His foul imagination links/Each Dame he sees with all her stinks": masculinity and obsessional disorder in The lady's dressing room

Janelle Pötzsch: Kantian ethics from the horse's mouth

Philosophy of science. William Goodwin: Volatile spirits: scientists and society in Gulliver's third voyage

Kurt Edward Milberger: Gulliver in stable: anti-Cartesian satire and the bête-machine

In part four of Gulliver's travels. Dutton B. Kearny: Swift's critique of philosophical materialism

Nicolas Michaud: Gulliver's creation of reality through disability: Swift, idealism and the act of perception

Dutton B. Kearny: How to historicize thumos: Swift's The battel of the books

Janelle Pötzsch: Weaving the world: the spider in Swift's The battel of the books

Political philosophy. Jesús Valera-Zapata: Swift's fantasy as a vindication of tolerance

Greg Littmann: Gulliver's Republic

Will Desmond: Gulliver's travels and Philosopher-kings

Pritika Nehra: Political vision(s) in Plato's Republic and Swift's Gulliver's travels

John Price: Modernizing Augustan satire on screen: Gulliver's travels.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Jonathan Swift and philosophy

ISBN:

9781498521536

1498521533

OCLC:

967712044