https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1274 Jonathan Swift’s Tale of a Tub (1704) was, he claimed, a satire on corruptions in religion and learning written in defense of the Church of England. The atomistic materialism of De Rerum Natura, with its rejection of an incorporeal spirit or soul and its critique of providence, was accordingly one of the principal targets of the Tale; Swift’s contemporaries, however, feared that his parody was an application and extension of, rather than an attack on, Lucretius’ philosophy. Swift’s text shows their fears were well founded. Numéros Lucretius: Unfounded Nature Readings fr ven., 09 févr. 2024 14:10:40 +0100 jeu., 22 févr. 2024 14:38:06 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1274 0