Jonathan Swift and the Millenium of Madness. The Information Age in Swift's ' A Tale of a Tub '.

CRAVEN, KENNETH

ISBN 10: 9004095241 / ISBN 13: 9789004095243

Verlag: Leiden-New York-Köln, E.J. Brill. 1992, 1992

Beschreibung

Original publisher's red cloth hardback, gilt tile spine and frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, large 8vo: frontispiece, xiv, 238pp., [ij], footnotes, bibliographical notes, list works cited, index. Very fine copy. Volume 30: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 153059

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Jonathan Swift and the Millenium of Madness. The Information Age in Swift's ' A Tale of a Tub '.
• Verlag: Leiden-New York-Köln, E.J. Brill. 1992
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 9004095241
• ISBN-13: 9789004095243
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

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Inhaltsangabe

Jonathan Swift and the Millennium of Madness shows for the first time Swift's philosophical challenge to John Locke and challenge to his disciples: John Toland for deism and advocacy of John Milton and the English Revolution; Shaftesbury for confusing self-interest with the public weal, and Peter Browne for right-wing Irish philosophy. Craven demonstrates that Swift's first masterpiece A Tale of a Tub (1704) was his response to lapsing of the Licensing Act in 1695 and the consequent ascendancy of modern priestcraft.
Craven's revisionary book does much more than solve riddles that have perplexed Swiftians and historians for centuries. The book reveals Swift's intimate understanding of seventeenth-century science from Bacon and the Invisible College at Oxford to the Newtonian, synthesis, the Paracelsian innovations in medicine, the resurgence of mid-century reform, and the links between the humors traditions in medicine and literature, saturnine melancholy, and the dreaming god Kronos. The book proposes a new view of intellectual history. Swift joins the philosophies of Neoplatonic divine order, Epicurean atomism, and the Reformation as permeated with millennial expectations. As a result, modern information systems remain skewed by a deconstructing scientific millenarian myth. Swift like Aristotle earlier rejects this classical faith in favor of the more somber Kronos myth.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kenneth Craven, Ph.D. in comparative literature (English and Russian), Columbia University, has served on the faculty of the City College of New York, practiced psychotherapy, and worked as management consultant for A.T. & T., IBM, and the Xerox Corporation. His landmark study for the National Science Foundation and the Modern Language Association defined the information cycle and prescribed the first doctoral programs in information and computer sciences.