Jonathan Swift and Philosophy (eBook)

Janelle Potzsch (Herausgeber)

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2016
272 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2154-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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.

Autor

Janelle Pötzsch works at the philosophy department of Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Inhalt

Editor’s PrefacePart I: Ethics and Social Philosophy1. Michael Hauskeller: Topsyturvy: Jonathan Swift on Human Nature, Reason, and Morality2. Chris A. Kramer: How Socratic is Swift’s irony?3. Will Desmond: Gulliver among the Cynics4. Steve van Hagen: “His foul Imagination links / Each Dame he sees with all her Stinks”: Masculinity and obsessional disorder in The Lady’s Dressing Room5. Janelle Pötzsch: Kantian ethics from the horse’s mouthPart II: Philosophy of Science6. William Goodwin: Volatile Spirits: Scientists and Society in Gulliver’s Third Voyage7. Kurt Edward Milberger: Gulliver in Stable: Anti-Cartesian Satire and the Bête-machine in Part Four of Gulliver’s Travels8. Dutton B. Kearny: Swift’s critique of philosophical materialism9. Nicolas Michaud: Gulliver’s Creation of Reality through Disability: Swift, Idealism, and the Act of Perception10. Dutton B. Kearny: How to Historicize Thumos: Swift’s The Battel of the Books11. Janelle Pötzsch: Weaving the world: The spider in Swift’s The Battel of the BooksPart III: Political Philosophy12. Jesús Valera-Zapata: Swift’s fantasy as a vindication of tolerance13. Greg Littmann: Gulliver’s Republic14. Will Desmond: Gulliver’s Travels and Philosopher-Kings15. Pritika Nehra: Political Vision(s) in Plato’s Republic and Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels16. John Price: Modernizing Augustan Satire on Screen: Gulliver’s Travels (1996) About the Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.12.2016
• Co-Autor: Will Desmond, Pritika Nehra, Janelle Potzsch, John Price, Jesus Valera-Zapata, William Goodwin, Steve van Hagen, Michael Hauskeller, Dutton B. Kearney, Chris A. Kramer, Greg Littmann, Nicolas Michaud, Kurt Edward Milberger
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: British Literature • Eighteenth-Century Studies • ethics • Gulliver’s Travels • Gulliver’s Travels • history of ideas • History of Philosophy • Houyhnhnm • Intellectual history • Irony • Laputa • Philosophy of Literature • philosophy of science • Political Philosophy • Utopia
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-2154-1 / 1498521541
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-2154-3 / 9781498521543