A Critique of Reason: Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

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While many may think of Swift's magnificent octopus as a mere children's adventure tale, it is, in fact, one of the darkest and most troubling satires in the English language.  Written as the Enlightenment began asserting rationality as the measure of all things, Gulliver's Travels questions the very premises of western culture themselves.  

Link to Gulliver's Travels: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17157/17157-h/17157-h.htm

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