Political Philosophy in Gulliver’s Travels: Shocked by The Just Society (Recovering Political Philosophy)

Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgments
Epigraph
Contents
1 Introduction
	Gulliver’s Travels Today
	Reading Swift: A Modest Proposal, Tale of a Tub and Other Writings
	Other Prequels to the Travels: Ancients and Moderns
	Battle of the Books and Tale of a Tub
	Approaches to Gulliver’s Travels
2 Little People and Big People
	Big and Small Bodies
	Souls and Statesmanship
	Where Are Big Souls Found?
	The Transition to the Third Voyage
3 Nameless Moderns: Science, Miracles and Faith
	A First Look at Modern Science
	The Promise or Prospect of Miracles
	Medicine, the Body and Politics
	The Need to Return to the Ancients
4 A Realistic Utopia, and Human Passions
	Old Lilliput
	Swift’s Realistic Utopia
	The Upper Classes and Liberal Education
5 Heroic Ancients
	Speaking With the Dead
	Brutus and Others: Heroes and Citizenship
	Aristotle vs. The Moderns
	Other Afterlives
6 Rational Horses and Humans
	Cruel Humanitarians and Xenophobic Citizens
	Houyhnhnms vs. Yahoos
	Plausible Cosmologies
	Yahoos and Modern Europeans
7 European Imperialism and the Bible
	Types of Animal and Human Being
	People of the Book
8 What We Can Learn
	What Do the Houyhnhnms Learn?
	The Master: Reason, Enlightenment and Physics
Sources
Index