This book explores the rich philosophical content of the writings of Jonathan Swift. It discusses these philosophical topics against their ideengeschichtliche background and demonstrates that Swift's work offers starting points for philosophical reflection that are still topical today.
This book explores the rich philosophical content of the writings of Jonathan Swift. It discusses these philosophical topics against their ideengeschichtliche background and demonstrates that Swift's work offers starting points for philosophical reflection that are still topical today.
Janelle Pötzsch works at the philosophy department of Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Inhaltsangabe
Editor's Preface Part I: Ethics and Social Philosophy 1. Michael Hauskeller: Topsyturvy: Jonathan Swift on Human Nature, Reason, and Morality 2. Chris A. Kramer: How Socratic is Swift's irony? 3. Will Desmond: Gulliver among the Cynics 4. 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 5. Janelle Pötzsch: Kantian ethics from the horse's mouth Part II: Philosophy of Science 6. William Goodwin: Volatile Spirits: Scientists and Society in Gulliver's Third Voyage 7. Kurt Edward Milberger: Gulliver in Stable: Anti-Cartesian Satire and the Bête-machine in Part Four of Gulliver's Travels 8. Dutton B. Kearny: Swift's critique of philosophical materialism 9. Nicolas Michaud: Gulliver's Creation of Reality through Disability: Swift, Idealism, and the Act of Perception 10. Dutton B. Kearny: How to Historicize Thumos: Swift's The Battel of the Books 11. Janelle Pötzsch: Weaving the world: The spider in Swift's The Battel of the Books Part III: Political Philosophy 12. Jesús Valera-Zapata: Swift's fantasy as a vindication of tolerance 13. Greg Littmann: Gulliver's Republic 14. Will Desmond: Gulliver's Travels and Philosopher-Kings 15. Pritika Nehra: Political Vision(s) in Plato's Republic and Swift's Gulliver's Travels 16. John Price: Modernizing Augustan Satire on Screen: Gulliver's Travels (1996) About the Contributors
Editor's Preface Part I: Ethics and Social Philosophy 1. Michael Hauskeller: Topsyturvy: Jonathan Swift on Human Nature, Reason, and Morality 2. Chris A. Kramer: How Socratic is Swift's irony? 3. Will Desmond: Gulliver among the Cynics 4. 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 5. Janelle Pötzsch: Kantian ethics from the horse's mouth Part II: Philosophy of Science 6. William Goodwin: Volatile Spirits: Scientists and Society in Gulliver's Third Voyage 7. Kurt Edward Milberger: Gulliver in Stable: Anti-Cartesian Satire and the Bête-machine in Part Four of Gulliver's Travels 8. Dutton B. Kearny: Swift's critique of philosophical materialism 9. Nicolas Michaud: Gulliver's Creation of Reality through Disability: Swift, Idealism, and the Act of Perception 10. Dutton B. Kearny: How to Historicize Thumos: Swift's The Battel of the Books 11. Janelle Pötzsch: Weaving the world: The spider in Swift's The Battel of the Books Part III: Political Philosophy 12. Jesús Valera-Zapata: Swift's fantasy as a vindication of tolerance 13. Greg Littmann: Gulliver's Republic 14. Will Desmond: Gulliver's Travels and Philosopher-Kings 15. Pritika Nehra: Political Vision(s) in Plato's Republic and Swift's Gulliver's Travels 16. John Price: Modernizing Augustan Satire on Screen: Gulliver's Travels (1996) About the Contributors
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
USt-IdNr: DE450055826
