Jonathan Swift and Philosophy (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Pötzsch, Janelle

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Jonathan Swift and Philosophy is the first book to analyse 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 age actually was. Moreover, it also sets straight preconceptions about Swift as ignorant about the scientific developments of his time. The authors offer insights into, and interpretations of, Swift's political philosophy, ethics, and his philosophy of science and demonstrate how versatile a writer and thinker Swift actually was. This book will be of interest to scholars of philosophy, history of ideas, and 18th century literature and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216209386
• Artikelnr.: 74831503

Autorenporträt

Edited by Janelle Pötzsch - Contributions by Michael Hauskeller; Chris A. Kramer; Will Desmond; Steve van Hagen; Janelle Pötzsch; William Goodwin; Kurt Edward Milberger; Dutton B. Kearney; Nicolas Michaud; Jesús Valera-Zapata; Greg Littmann; Pritika Nehra

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