Janelle Pötzsch works at the philosophy department of Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

This fascinating collection testifies to Swift’s important place in the history of ideas, despite him once joking that ‘all notions too abstracted / Are like the ravings of a crackt head’. These provocative and lucidly-written essays range across the Swift canon, positioning his works in intense dialogue with other key Enlightenment thinkers on issues of ethics, science and politics. Yet, most significantly, Jonathan Swift and Philosophy reveals to us an enduring writer whose works speak profoundly to the debates of today.

• Editor’s PrefacePart I: Ethics and Social Philosophy1. Michael Hauskeller: Topsyturvy: Jonathan Swift on Human Nature, Reason, and Morality2. Chris A. Kramer: How Socratic is Swift’s irony?3. Will Desmond: Gulliver among the Cynics4. Steve van Hagen: “His foul Imagination links / Each Dame he sees with all her Stinks”: Masculinity and obsessional disorder in The Lady’s Dressing Room5. Janelle Pötzsch: Kantian ethics from the horse’s mouthPart II: Philosophy of Science6. William Goodwin: Volatile Spirits: Scientists and Society in Gulliver’s Third Voyage7. Kurt Edward Milberger: Gulliver in Stable: Anti-Cartesian Satire and the Bête-machine in Part Four of Gulliver’s Travels8. Dutton B. Kearny: Swift’s critique of philosophical materialism9. Nicolas Michaud: Gulliver’s Creation of Reality through Disability: Swift, Idealism, and the Act of Perception10. Dutton B. Kearny: How to Historicize Thumos: Swift’s The Battel of the Books11. Janelle Pötzsch: Weaving the world: The spider in Swift’s The Battel of the BooksPart III: Political Philosophy12. Jesús Valera-Zapata: Swift’s fantasy as a vindication of tolerance13. Greg Littmann: Gulliver’s Republic14. Will Desmond: Gulliver’s Travels and Philosopher-Kings15. Pritika Nehra: Political Vision(s) in Plato’s Republic and Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels16. John Price: Modernizing Augustan Satire on Screen: Gulliver’s Travels (1996) About the Contributors

Janelle Pötzsch works at the philosophy department of Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

This fascinating collection testifies to Swift’s important place in the history of ideas, despite him once joking that ‘all notions too abstracted / Are like the ravings of a crackt head’. These provocative and lucidly-written essays range across the Swift canon, positioning his works in intense dialogue with other key Enlightenment thinkers on issues of ethics, science and politics. Yet, most significantly, Jonathan Swift and Philosophy reveals to us an enduring writer whose works speak profoundly to the debates of today.

• Editor’s PrefacePart I: Ethics and Social Philosophy1. Michael Hauskeller: Topsyturvy: Jonathan Swift on Human Nature, Reason, and Morality2. Chris A. Kramer: How Socratic is Swift’s irony?3. Will Desmond: Gulliver among the Cynics4. Steve van Hagen: “His foul Imagination links / Each Dame he sees with all her Stinks”: Masculinity and obsessional disorder in The Lady’s Dressing Room5. Janelle Pötzsch: Kantian ethics from the horse’s mouthPart II: Philosophy of Science6. William Goodwin: Volatile Spirits: Scientists and Society in Gulliver’s Third Voyage7. Kurt Edward Milberger: Gulliver in Stable: Anti-Cartesian Satire and the Bête-machine in Part Four of Gulliver’s Travels8. Dutton B. Kearny: Swift’s critique of philosophical materialism9. Nicolas Michaud: Gulliver’s Creation of Reality through Disability: Swift, Idealism, and the Act of Perception10. Dutton B. Kearny: How to Historicize Thumos: Swift’s The Battel of the Books11. Janelle Pötzsch: Weaving the world: The spider in Swift’s The Battel of the BooksPart III: Political Philosophy12. Jesús Valera-Zapata: Swift’s fantasy as a vindication of tolerance13. Greg Littmann: Gulliver’s Republic14. Will Desmond: Gulliver’s Travels and Philosopher-Kings15. Pritika Nehra: Political Vision(s) in Plato’s Republic and Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels16. John Price: Modernizing Augustan Satire on Screen: Gulliver’s Travels (1996) About the Contributors

Janelle Pötzsch works at the philosophy department of Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

This fascinating collection testifies to Swift’s important place in the history of ideas, despite him once joking that ‘all notions too abstracted / Are like the ravings of a crackt head’. These provocative and lucidly-written essays range across the Swift canon, positioning his works in intense dialogue with other key Enlightenment thinkers on issues of ethics, science and politics. Yet, most significantly, Jonathan Swift and Philosophy reveals to us an enduring writer whose works speak profoundly to the debates of today.

• Editor’s PrefacePart I: Ethics and Social Philosophy1. Michael Hauskeller: Topsyturvy: Jonathan Swift on Human Nature, Reason, and Morality2. Chris A. Kramer: How Socratic is Swift’s irony?3. Will Desmond: Gulliver among the Cynics4. Steve van Hagen: “His foul Imagination links / Each Dame he sees with all her Stinks”: Masculinity and obsessional disorder in The Lady’s Dressing Room5. Janelle Pötzsch: Kantian ethics from the horse’s mouthPart II: Philosophy of Science6. William Goodwin: Volatile Spirits: Scientists and Society in Gulliver’s Third Voyage7. Kurt Edward Milberger: Gulliver in Stable: Anti-Cartesian Satire and the Bête-machine in Part Four of Gulliver’s Travels8. Dutton B. Kearny: Swift’s critique of philosophical materialism9. Nicolas Michaud: Gulliver’s Creation of Reality through Disability: Swift, Idealism, and the Act of Perception10. Dutton B. Kearny: How to Historicize Thumos: Swift’s The Battel of the Books11. Janelle Pötzsch: Weaving the world: The spider in Swift’s The Battel of the BooksPart III: Political Philosophy12. Jesús Valera-Zapata: Swift’s fantasy as a vindication of tolerance13. Greg Littmann: Gulliver’s Republic14. Will Desmond: Gulliver’s Travels and Philosopher-Kings15. Pritika Nehra: Political Vision(s) in Plato’s Republic and Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels16. John Price: Modernizing Augustan Satire on Screen: Gulliver’s Travels (1996) About the Contributors