Great Authors - Neoclassical and Romantic Literature - Swift, Gulliver's Travels

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  • čas přidán 16. 10. 2020
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Komentáře • 53

  • @Khumzalet
    @Khumzalet Před 3 lety +75

    “Jonathan Swift’s novel, Gulliver’s travels is arguably the most savage thing ever written in the English language....”😂😂😂

    • @dustinhourihan6201
      @dustinhourihan6201 Před 3 měsíci

      Apparently the professor has never played games online ... just saying

  • @StarboyXL9
    @StarboyXL9 Před 2 lety +18

    "Drown the world; I am not content with despising it!"
    Unfathomably based.

  • @dreioo8759
    @dreioo8759 Před 3 lety +52

    As per usual, I kid myself that I'll take a sneak peek at the beginning and end up watching the whole thing. So good!

    • @mehmetgok1975
      @mehmetgok1975 Před 19 dny

      Isn't that the rule of thumb that we are facing a genius?

  • @Khumzalet
    @Khumzalet Před 3 lety +30

    Dr Michael Sugrue needs to do an Interview💯
    I am curious to know how he fell in love with philosophy. Which philosophy book was his first to read? What drove him to learn more & more? Why he chose this path and not others like Engineering, Psychology etc? I am curious to know more about this intellectual jewel 💎

    • @colleencupido5125
      @colleencupido5125 Před 3 lety +6

      "Intellectual jewel" is right on... Which philosophy book was my first? Plato, and I started with Apology. Why? Professor Sugrue's course on Plato in the mid 1990s. Then there's Pro. Solomon's s lecture on Anger from a Teaching Co./ Great Courses series where he describes one of his favorite books on philosophy... Alice in Wonderland. Especially the mouse's tail which ends with the line "I am judge and I am jury, said cunning old Fury." PS: It's because of this lecture that I read "Gulliver's Travels" back in the 90's. A children's book? Yeah, the same was Animal Farm is a children's book...

    • @mehmetgok1975
      @mehmetgok1975 Před 19 dny

      @@colleencupido5125 In one video Dr. Sugrue says "There is no children's book here." which made me smile thus I wanted to add.

    • @mehmetgok1975
      @mehmetgok1975 Před 19 dny

      Thomas Jefferson once said: "If you find an intellectual than ask what books he or she reads first."

  • @Adam-bj5vx
    @Adam-bj5vx Před 3 lety +13

    Whoever is uploading these, thank you!!

  • @raymondsamo9808
    @raymondsamo9808 Před 3 lety +12

    Listen to "Kai Engel - Curtains are Always Drawn" looping in the background throughout the lectures with little lower volume. It's like God is not dead, God remains alive and prof. Michael Sugrue has seen him.
    10/10 without music
    20/10 with epic music

  • @sunnybrar3567
    @sunnybrar3567 Před 3 lety +8

    These uploads make my day, thank you!

  • @MLGCaptainVirgil
    @MLGCaptainVirgil Před 3 lety +9

    Always happy to see a new lecture!

  • @Othimbo
    @Othimbo Před rokem +2

    Well I guess I’ll be reading Gulliber’s Travels again.

  • @seeketng4309
    @seeketng4309 Před 3 lety +7

    Thank you, Prof Sugrue for this great lecture.

  • @fionakarayianni2200
    @fionakarayianni2200 Před 2 měsíci

    Excellent. Thank you for sharing :)

  • @margaretmanfredo8410
    @margaretmanfredo8410 Před 3 lety +4

    Keep it coming!

  • @ryans3001
    @ryans3001 Před 2 lety +2

    Thank You!

  • @IvanTheHeathen
    @IvanTheHeathen Před 9 měsíci +1

    This is an excellent lecture, as are your others, Dr. Sugrue. I say that despite the difference in temperament between yourself and Swift which makes you find much of his satire somewhat off-putting. Like Swift, I have a rather dark sense of humor, and _A Modest Proposal_ is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. It’s rare for me to burst out laughing when I read something, even something that’s quite funny. But with _A Modest Proposal,_ I just couldn’t restrain myself.

  • @johndutchman
    @johndutchman Před 3 lety +2

    Thank you.

  • @maxheadrom3088
    @maxheadrom3088 Před 6 měsíci

    I really love this videos. You, sir, are a great teacher!

  • @MegaFount
    @MegaFount Před 2 lety +3

    We seem to be beyond satire now. We live in Lilliput.

  • @muhammadasifkhan4198
    @muhammadasifkhan4198 Před 5 měsíci

    Beautifully presented.

  • @user-dy3os1kw5l
    @user-dy3os1kw5l Před 2 lety +4

    No automatic subscription makes the video a bit difficult to understand. PS:big fan from China.

    • @obladioblada6932
      @obladioblada6932 Před 2 lety +1

      Same here in Brazil. I wonder why does that happens.

  • @adnanmahmud8854
    @adnanmahmud8854 Před rokem +3

    Lilliput 15:26
    Brobdingnag 22:20
    Laputa 28:54
    Glubbdubdrib 38:17
    Luggnagg 42:15
    Houyhnhnms 44:30

  • @ryfreedman
    @ryfreedman Před 2 lety +1

    I needed to pass some time & knew this would be interesting. It was. The only disappointment I have with this video series is that each video comes to an abrupt end before I am ready for it to end.

  • @cheri238
    @cheri238 Před 7 měsíci

    Thanks again, Professor Sugre!! I hope you are doing well.
    Jonathan Swift, Dean Swift 1667-1745, British Satarist, Dean and dean of St. Patrick's, in Dublin.
    I love Jonathan Swifts books.
    The layers of ironic sarcasm with dark humor are definitely throwing rocks of disorder and discontent of social structures of diseased minds centuries old regarding religious insights of hypocrisy.
    "The only way children lives matter is by those who are roasting them on a fire of witches brew made of toad frog eyes staring in the gouged vultures beeks of poltiticans that murder them for desponic wars of annihilation and call it justice." Look at us now in 2023!!!!

  • @TheTheshreyasraj
    @TheTheshreyasraj Před rokem +2

    Never read the whole book but My whole life was a lie assuming Gulliver's travels a children's book!

    • @cheri238
      @cheri238 Před 7 měsíci

      What? Your kidding right? Have you ever read anything by Hans Christian Anderson?
      "Alice in Wonderland."

  • @ayeshakhanayesha6933
    @ayeshakhanayesha6933 Před rokem +1

    caption and transcript make understanding easily

  • @mikedaniels3009
    @mikedaniels3009 Před rokem +2

    Good old Jonathan would have either gone bananas in our world or created the Jon Swift Show and beaten George Carlin at ratings.

  • @davidfost5777
    @davidfost5777 Před 2 lety

    I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated

  • @ananthpullur6142
    @ananthpullur6142 Před 2 lety +3

    Imagine Swift in a COD lobby

  • @drbonesshow1
    @drbonesshow1 Před 2 lety +2

    I'm a cat-person because cats have value. I'm not a people-person, I'm just a person.

  • @maxheadrom3088
    @maxheadrom3088 Před 6 měsíci

    Could someone forward this video to Steven Pinker? Thanks!

  • @TellTheTruth_and_ShameTheDevil

    At the big end??? Where are these bastards!?
    😂 19:22

  • @chasemorello60
    @chasemorello60 Před 8 dny

    ✨🌠✨

  • @Ealdorman_of_Mercia
    @Ealdorman_of_Mercia Před 3 lety +6

    Please tell me, how come this has been uploaded today but looks like it was taped in 1988 ?

    • @dr.michaelsugrue
      @dr.michaelsugrue  Před 3 lety +6

      The videos on this channel are from the lecture archives of Dr. Sugrue.

    • @dubthedirector
      @dubthedirector Před 2 lety +5

      What, there was a world before the internet?

  • @cinnamon4605
    @cinnamon4605 Před 2 lety

    Again Woody Allen is mentioned here :)

    • @Laocoon283
      @Laocoon283 Před rokem

      He's my personal favorite child molester. Top 3 fasure

  • @jmhaugen4757
    @jmhaugen4757 Před rokem

    One gets the feeling that Swift didn't have a real great grasp of history or historical figures, if he thinks our ancestors were more virtuous.

  • @christinemartin63
    @christinemartin63 Před 8 měsíci

    No, no, no ... Literature IS the voice of truth and wisdom. Philosophy? Not so much....

  • @christinemartin63
    @christinemartin63 Před 9 měsíci

    Only true idealists (not necessarily the self-righteous, by the way) can ever become such cynical misanthropes--totally understandable and touchingly pathetic.