Name: Political Philosophy in Gulliver's Travels: Shocked by the Just Society (en Inglés)
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Author: Robertson, Lloyd W.
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Libro Físico

Autor

Lloyd W. Robertson

Editorial

Palgrave MacMillan

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

213

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

21.0 x 14.8 x 1.4 cm

Peso

0.42 kg.

ISBN13

9783030988524

Categorías

Siglo xvii - c. 1700-c. 1799
Estudios literarios entre el 1500 y 1800
Ciencias políticas
Filosofía social y política

Political Philosophy in Gulliver's Travels: Shocked by the Just Society (en Inglés)

Lloyd W. Robertson (Autor) · Palgrave MacMillan · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Political Philosophy in Gulliver's Travels: Shocked by the Just Society (en Inglés)"

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 andin 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.