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Discerninghearts.com presents great works in Western literature with Joseph Pierce,

who is an internationally acclaimed author and literary scholar whose work explores the great

writers of Western literature through a Catholic and classical lens.

He has written numerous best-selling books on figures such as Shakespeare, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton,

Oscar Wilde, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and El Arbogg. A frequent lecture and longtime contributor

to EWTN, he serves as visiting professor of literature at Ave Maria University and as editor of St. Austin Review.

The great works in Western literature with Joseph Pierce.

I'm your host, Chris McGregor.

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest satirical works ever written.

Through the misadventures of Gulliver, his hopelessly modern protagonists,

Swift exposes many of the follies of the English Enlightenment,

from its worship of science to its neglect of traditional philosophy and theology.

Jonathan Swift's satire on the threats posed by the Enlightenment

and the embryonic spirit of secular fundamentalism

makes Gulliver's Travels priceless reading for today's Defenders of Tradition.

We now begin our discussion on Jonathan Swift and Gulliver's Travels.

Welcome, Joseph. It's good to be here. Jonathan Swift. Yes indeed. Great writer, riding at a time of

transformation in England, a bit earlier than Dickens and Jane Austen, because he's writing in the 18th century during the time that's now called the Enlightenment.

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