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Jonathan Swift and Philosophy

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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.
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 Poetzsch: 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 Bete-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 Poetzsch: Weaving the world: The spider in Swift's The Battel of the Books Part III: Political Philosophy 12. Jesus 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
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