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Political philosophy in Gulliver's travelsshocked by The Just Society /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Political philosophy in Gulliver's travelsby Lloyd W. Robertson.
Reminder of title:	shocked by The Just Society /
Author:	Robertson, Lloyd W.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022.
Description:	xiv, 213 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Politics in literature.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98853-1
ISBN:	9783030988531$q(electronic bk.)

Political philosophy in Gulliver's travelsshocked by The Just Society /
Robertson, Lloyd W.

Political philosophy in Gulliver's travelsshocked by The Just Society /[electronic resource] :by Lloyd W. Robertson. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022. - xiv, 213 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Recovering political philosophy,2524-7174. - Recovering political philosophy..

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Little People and Big People -- Chapter 3. Nameless Moderns: Science, Miracles and Faith -- Chapter 4. A Realistic Utopia, and Human Passions -- Chapter 5. Heroic Ancients -- Chapter 6. Rational Horses and Humans -- Chapter 7. European Imperialism and The Bible -- Chapter 8. What we can learn.

"Robertson guides us to a deeper understanding of Swift's intention in writing his tale of Gulliver's fantastical voyages. We discover an exploration of the permanent questions that characterize human life and define our contemporary dilemma, including: what constitutes knowledge, and how can we ensure it is directed toward the human good? We gain fresh tools to investigate such questions with Robertson as our skillful guide." -Patrick Malcolmson, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, St. Thomas University, Canada "This book is a much needed re-discovery of Swift. We can all gain from Robertson's study a new appreciation of Swift's greatness as a thinker in addition to a literary giant and, of course, a satirist." -Colin D. Pearce, Lyceum Professor, Lyceum Program, Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism, USA 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. Lloyd W. Robertson is a former lecturer in political science at St. Thomas University in Canada, among other post-secondary institutions.

ISBN: 9783030988531$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-98853-1doiSubjects--Personal Names:

176406
Swift, Jonathan,
1667-1745.Subjects--Topical Terms:

203760
Politics in literature.

LC Class. No.: PR3727

Dewey Class. No.: 823.509

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