Political Philosophy in Gulliver's Travels - Shocked by The Just Society (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Recovering Political Philosophy
Release date:	July 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Lloyd W. Robertson
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	213
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-098852-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN:	3-03-098852-X
Barcode:	9783030988524

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