Cioran et Swift
Cioran and Swift

Anamorphosis of disenchantment

Summary/Abstract: This article compares Cioran’s criticism of utopian thought with Jonathan Swift’s parody of utopian fictions. According to Cioran, Gulliver’s Travels symbolizes the vision of a “utopia without hope”. Cioran’s interpretation of Swift’s misanthropy is comparable to a philosophical anamorphosis which uses the deformations of human reason as a mirror; a mirror capable to reflect the real proportions of the “animal rationale”.

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