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Jonathan Swift And Philosophy
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Author : Janelle Pötzsch
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2016-12-07
Jonathan Swift And Philosophy written by Janelle Pötzsch and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-07 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Jonathan Swift And The Millennium Of Madness
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Author : Kenneth Craven
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1992-02-01
Jonathan Swift And The Millennium Of Madness written by Kenneth Craven and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-02-01 with History categories.
This provocative new view of intellectual history probes the scientific millenarian myth directing twentieth-century learning. Craven's interdisciplinary findings reveal Swift's dismembering of the consolidated legacy of Paracelsus, Bacon, Milton, Newton, Locke, Toland, and Shaftesbury.
The Unthinkable Swift
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Author : Warren Montag
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1994-09-17
The Unthinkable Swift written by Warren Montag and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-09-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
No major figure of the English Augustan period has generated stronger and more contradictory views than Jonathan Swift. Scourge of the Whig ascendancy in his own day, vilified by the Victorians, celebrated by Yeats, he has in recent years become a significant bone of contention for prominent figures on the left like E.P. Thompson and Perry Anderson. In this highly original and subtle new study, Warren Montag situates Swift in relation to the ideological and political currents of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries—in particular to what Montag perspicaciously identifies as the long crisis of the British state. Swift’s perspective, he argues, was determined less by his personality or psychology than by his position as an Anglican cleric. The church, an instrument of the Tudor and Stuart absolutist state, lapsed into institutional and ideological crisis after the Stuart’s fall. In Montag’s view, Swift’s writings were a defense of this increasingly indefensible institution. Swift employed satire because only in the negative representations of this literary form could the now effectively ‘unthinkable’ doctrines of the Church be made to appear. Opening with a historical survey of the crisis of English absolutism and the Anglican Church, Montag then gives a definitive account of the specific conflicts in philosophy against which Swift’s Anglican orthodoxy was aligned. Detailed examinations of Swift’s two prose masterpieces, A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver’s Travels, follow. Historically and philosophically informed, The Unthinkable Swift contributes not only to our understanding of a seminal figure in English literary history but also to the study of historical ideologies, in particular the once dominant religious tradition at the dawn of the first modern capitalist state.
Swift And Science
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Author : G. Lynall
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-05-22
Swift And Science written by G. Lynall and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
It is thought that Swift was opposed to the new science that heralded the beginning of the modern age, but this book interrogates that assumption, tracing the theological, political, and socio-cultural resonances of scientific knowledge in the early eighteenth century, and considering what they can reveal about Swift's imagination.
Political Philosophy In Gulliver S Travels
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Author : Lloyd W. Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2023-07-16
Political Philosophy In Gulliver S Travels written by Lloyd W. Robertson and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-16 with Political Science categories.
This book analyzes Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels from a political philosophy perspective. When authors have focused on politics in Swift’s writings, this has usually meant a study of how Swift located himself on issues of his day such as church and state, and Ireland. Robertson claims by contrast that Gulliver’s Travels is fundamentally a book about the “ancients” (e.g. Plato, Aristotle), and the “moderns” (science and technology), and their contrasting views about the human condition. The claim that the Travels is “a kind of prolegomena” to political philosophy leaves open the possibility that it does not achieve, or seek to achieve, a fusion of various teachings but rather uses the device of alien societies to point us to uncomfortable aspects of political philosophy’s “larger questions” we are prone to ignore. Swift, Robertson argues, draws our attention to some version of the classical republic, as idealized in Aristotle’s political writings and in Plato’s Republic, as opposed to a modern regime which, at its best or most intellectual, emphasizes modern science and technology in combination as a way to improve the human condition.
Swift As Nemesis
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Author : Frank T. Boyle
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2000
Swift As Nemesis written by Frank T. Boyle and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Criticism categories.
With much of the intellectual discourse of the last several decades concerned with reconsiderations of modernity, how do we read the works of Jonathan Swift, who ridiculed the modern even as it was taking shape? The author approaches the question of modernity in Swift by way of a theory of satire from Aristotle via Swift (and Bakhtin) that eschews modern notions that satire is meant to reform and correct. Linking satire to Nemesis, the goddess of righteous vengeance, "Swift as Nemesis" develops new readings of Swift's major satires. From his first published work, Swift associates the modern with the new science and represents modernity as a pernicious strain of narcissism that devalues humanistic discourse. In his early satires, he compiles a profane history of the modern in which the new philosophy is an extension of the methodology of alchemists, the debased Roman Catholic Church, and the various Puritan sects. This history culminates in "A Tale of a Tub" with an assault on the intellectual basis of that most formidable of all modern works, Newton's "Principia." In "Gulliver's Travels," Swift attacks modern culture while aiming at individual readers. Novelistic identification with Gulliver's narcissism (beginning with masturbation and encompassing various scatological observations) implicates readers in the larger cultural critique in which Gulliver, paralleling Narcissus, rejects cultures he encounters until he embraces a cultural image that destroys him. The wider cultural implications of Swift's work are evident in the way he uses travel as a metaphor to link the inhuman consequences of European imperialism with the discoveries of the new science. Finally, Swift's works, like the mirror Nemesis uses to destroy Narcissus, are shown to return the narcissistic projections of critics. Recognizing that Narcissus and Echo have become important to the critique of modernism, the author argues that readers will find it useful now to turn to the contextualizing role of Nemesis. She emerges from Swift's critically irreducible satire with an ironic claim on modernity itself.
The Reputation Of Jonathan Swift 1781 1882
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Author : Donald M. Berwick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
The Reputation Of Jonathan Swift 1781 1882 written by Donald M. Berwick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with categories.
Swift And The Dialectical Tradition
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Author : James A Rembret
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1988-02-16
Swift And The Dialectical Tradition written by James A Rembret and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-02-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Swift A Collection Of Critical Essays
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
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Jonathan Swift And Popular Culture Myth Media And The Man
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Author : A. Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2002-05-13
Jonathan Swift And Popular Culture Myth Media And The Man written by A. Kelly and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Ann Kelly's provocative book breaks the mold of Swift studies. Twentieth century Swift scholars have tended to assess Jonathan Swift as a pillar of the eighteenth-century 'republic of letter', a conservative, even reactionary voice upholding classical values against the welling tide of popularization in literature. Kelly looks at Swift instead as a practical exponent of the popular and impressario of the literary image. She argues that Swift turned his back on the elite to write for a popular audience, and that he annexed scandals to his fictionalized print alter ego, creating a continual demand for works by or about this self-mythologized figure. A fascinating look at print culture, the commodification of the author, and the history of popular culture, this book should provoke lots of discussion.