num_pages: 286
description: The book bridges disciplines-24 journals in literature, history, science, medicine, philosophy, religion and Ireland have acclaimed this classic fascinating, extraordinarily well-informed, careful and encyclopedic."Craven reminds us of Swift's uncanny foreknowledge that democratic governments tend toward a populace inundated by false information it cannot process, and leaders intent only upon power and the deceptions by which it is gained."-Melvyn New "This new edition situates Swift's early masterpiece in its most resonant possible context - its savage critique of John Locke, whose life and philosophical work simultaneously served to legitimate government by popular sovereignty and to countenance colonial violence and slavery."-Clement Hawes
language: English
title: JONATHAN SWIFT AND THE MILLENNIUM OF MADNESS: The Information Age in Swift's 'A Tale of a Tub'
titlecomplete: JONATHAN SWIFT AND THE MILLENNIUM OF MADNESS: The Information Age in Swift's 'A Tale of a Tub' (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
publisher: iUniverse