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 2023 |
| Firstpublished: |
2022 |
| Authors: |
Lloyd W. Robertson
|
| Dimensions: |
210 x 148mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
213 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. 2022 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-098855-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
3-03-098855-4 |
| Barcode: |
9783030988555 |
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