Two meditations on the fiction of the Enlightenment by LAURENCE LERNER
2: Two-legged Houyhnhnms
Mr. Lerner examines the work of Benjamin Constant, Racine, and Swift. He argues that ' All his life, Swift was haunted by the question whether man was a rational creature, or merely ralionis capax, capable of reason. We see now that this was not his problem only, but that of his ate.'
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