TÜMER, Volkan2023-06-192023-06-192023TÜMER, Volkan. Denunciation of Humanity: A Posthumanist Reading of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Master’s Thesis, Nevşehir, 2023.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12695/2126Posthumanism is a theory that has been put forward as a reaction to the failing aspects of humanism. It is basically a response to the alleged shortcomings of the humanist thought. Critical posthumanism focuses on the critical discourses rather than technological aspects of posthumanism. The theory is anti-anthropocentric, and is against speciesism. It criticizes the humanist ideology by rejecting the notion of the human as the focal point in Western thought and practices. It rejects the humanist idea that language and reason are human-specific characteristics, and it asserts that these two characteristics are utilized in order for the human to dominate the nonhuman. In this context, this thesis analyzes Gulliver’s Travels from the perspective of the posthumanist theory, and aims to exhibit how the work presages posthumanism as early as in the eighteenth-century by deconstructing and defamilarizing human bodies and reason.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessposthumanismcritical posthumanismnonhumanlanguagereasonJonathan SwiftGulliver’s TravelsMaster Thesis17210355312