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What we can learn from a Renaissance nowhere In 1516, a book was
published in Latin with the enigmatic Greek-derived word as its
title. Utopia--which could mean either "good-place" or
"no-place"--gives a traveler's account of a newly discovered island
somewhere in the New World where the inhabitants enjoy a social
order based purely on natural reason and justice. As the traveler
describes the harmony, prosperity, and equality found there, a
dramatic contrast is drawn between the ideal community he portrays
and the poverty, crime, and often frightening political conditions
of 16th century Europe. Written by Sir Thomas More
(1477-1535)--then a rising intellectual star of the Renaissance and
ultimately the advisor and friend of Henry VIII who was executed
for his devoutly Catholic opposition to the king--Utopia is as
complex as its author. In the form of a Platonic dialogue, Utopia
explores topics such as money, property, crime, education,
religious tolerance, euthanasia, and feminism. Claimed as a paean
to communism (Lenin had More's name inscribed on a statue in
Moscow) as often as it has been seen as a defense of traditional
medieval values, Utopia began the lineage of utopian thinkers who
use storytelling to explore new possibilities for human
society--and remains as relevant today as when it was written in
Antwerp 500 years ago. Explore the issues like feminism,
euthanasia, and equality through Renaissance eyes Early communist
tract or a defense of medieval values? You decide. Peer inside the
enigmatic mind of the man who dared stand up to Henry VIII
Appreciate the postmodern possibilities of Platonic dialogue Part
of the bestselling Capstone Classics series edited by Tom
Butler-Bowdon, this edition features an introduction from writer,
economist, and historian Niall Kishtainy.
In Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts
his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy
unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a
community in which laws, personal relations and professional
ambition are based on reason, in contrast with the tradition-bound
superstitions of Europe, which were, in More's eyes, impediments to
equality and peaceful coexistence.One of the indicators of the
profound cultural and political influence of More's masterpiece is
today's common use of the word "Utopia" - a term he invented. This
extraordinary treatise on the values of rationality and reason -
here presented in a sparkling new translation by Roger Clarke and
accompanied by copious notes and additional texts - questions what
a philosopher can do to enact change in society, and how idealized
visions can inform political practice.
This is a fully revised edition of one of the most successful
volumes in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
series. Incorporating extensive updates to the editorial apparatus,
including the introduction, suggestions for further reading, and
footnotes, this third edition of More's Utopia has been
comprehensively re-worked to take into account scholarship
published since the second edition in 2002. The vivid and engaging
translation of the work itself by Robert M. Adams includes all the
ancillary materials by More's fellow humanists that, added to the
book at his own request, collectively constitute the first and best
interpretive guide to Utopia. Unlike other teaching editions of
Utopia, this edition keeps interpretive commentary - whether
editorial annotations or the many pungent marginal glosses that are
an especially attractive part of the humanist ancillary materials -
on the page they illuminate instead of relegating them to endnotes,
and provides students with a uniquely full and accessible
experience of More's perennially fascinating masterpiece.
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Utopia (Paperback, New edition)
Thomas More; Introduction by Mishtooni Bose; Series edited by Tom Griffith
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With an Introduction by Mishtooni Bose. More's Utopia is a complex,
innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought,
culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live
according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to
Christian teachings, who hold all possessions in common, and view
gold as worthless. Drawing on the ideas of Plato, St Augustine and
Aristotle, Utopia was to prove seminal in its turn, giving rise to
the genres of utopian and dystopian prose fiction whose
practitioners include Sir Francis Bacon, H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley
and George Orwell. At once a critique of the social consequences of
greed and a meditation on the personal cost of entering public
service, Utopia dramatises the difficulty of balancing the
competing claims of idealism and pragmatism, and continues to
invite its readers to become participants in a compelling debate
concerning the best state of a commonwealth.
This is a fully revised edition of one of the most successful
volumes in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
series. Incorporating extensive updates to the editorial apparatus,
including the introduction, suggestions for further reading, and
footnotes, this third edition of More's Utopia has been
comprehensively re-worked to take into account scholarship
published since the second edition in 2002. The vivid and engaging
translation of the work itself by Robert M. Adams includes all the
ancillary materials by More's fellow humanists that, added to the
book at his own request, collectively constitute the first and best
interpretive guide to Utopia. Unlike other teaching editions of
Utopia, this edition keeps interpretive commentary - whether
editorial annotations or the many pungent marginal glosses that are
an especially attractive part of the humanist ancillary materials -
on the page they illuminate instead of relegating them to endnotes,
and provides students with a uniquely full and accessible
experience of More's perennially fascinating masterpiece.
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Utopia (Paperback)
Thomas More; Translated by Raphe Robynson; Edited by J.Rawson Lumby
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Originally published in 1879, and reprinted numerous times, this
book presents the complete English text of Thomas More's Utopia,
together with a glossary and detailed textual notes. An
introduction and biography of More are also included. This book
will be of value to anyone with an interest in More's writings and
political philosophy in general.
First published in Latin in 1516, Thomas More's Utopia is one of
the most influential books in the Western philosophical and
literary tradition and one of the supreme achievements of
Renaissance humanism. This is the first edition of Utopia since
1965 (the Yale edition) to combine More's Latin text with an
English translation, and also the first edition to provide a Latin
text that is both accurate and readable. The text is based on the
early editions (with the Froben edition of March 1518 as
copy-text), but spelling and punctuation have been regularized in
accordance with modern practices. The translation is a revised
version of the acclaimed lively and readable Adams translation,
which also appears in Cambridge Texts in the History of Political
Thought. This edition, which incorporates the results of recent
Utopian scholarship, also includes an introduction, textual
apparatus, a full commentary and a guide to the voluminous
scholarly and critical literature on Utopia.
Thomas More's Utopia is one of the supreme achievements of Renaissance humanism. This is the first edition since 1965 to combine More's Latin text with an English translation, and the first to provide an accurate Latin text. Spelling and punctuation have been regularized, and the translation is a revised version of the acclaimed Adams translation, also published in Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. The edition includes an introduction, textual apparatus, a full commentary and a guide to the critical literature on Utopia.
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Utopia (Paperback)
Thomas More, Ursula Le Guin; Introduction by China Mieville
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Five hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More's
Utopia remains astonishingly radical and provocative. More imagines
an island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and
women are both educated, and property is communal. In a text
hovering between fantasy, satire, blueprint and game, More explores
the theories and realities behind war, political conflicts, social
tensions and redistribution, and imagines the day-to-day lives of a
citizenry living free from fear, oppression, violence and
suffering. But there has always been a shadow at the heart of
Utopia. If this is a depiction of the perfect state, why, as well
as wonder, does it provoke a growing unease? In this quincentenary
edition, published in conjunction with Somerset House, More's text
is introduced by multi-award-winning author China Mieville and
accompanied by four essays from Ursula K. Le Guin, today's most
distinguished utopian writer and thinker.
Wootton's translation brings out the liveliness of More's work and
offers an accurate and reliable version of a masterpiece of social
theory. His edition is further distinguished by the inclusion of a
translation of Erasmus's 'The Sileni of Alcibiades,' a work very
close in sentiment to Utopia, and one immensely influential in the
sixteenth century. This attractive combination suits the edition
especially well for use in Renaissance and Reformation courses as
well as as for Western Civilization survey courses. Wootton's
Introduction simultaneously provides a remarkably useful guide to
anyone's first reading of More's mysterious work and advances an
original argument on the origins and purposes of Utopia which no
one interested in sixteenth-century social theory will want to
miss.
Sixteenth-century classic by brilliant humanist, churchman and scholar envisioned a patriarchal island kingdom that practiced religious tolerance, in which everybody worked, all goods were community-owned, and violence, bloodshed and vice were nonexistent. Forerunner of many later attempts at establishing "Utopias" both in theory and in practice.
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Utopia (Paperback)
Thomas More; Contributions by Mint Editions
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Utopia (1516) is a work of political satire by Thomas More.
Published in Latin while More was serving as Privy Counsellor under
King Henry VIII, the text is stylized as a true account of a new
civilization discovered in the New World by traveler Raphael
Hythlodaeus. While there have been varying interpretations of
Utopia over the centuries, it is most consistently regarded as a
work of political philosophy in the tradition of Plato's Republic
that satirizes European society by contrast with the laws and
traditions of the Utopian people. "The island of Utopia is in the
middle two hundred miles broad, and holds almost at the same
breadth over a great part of it, but it grows narrower towards both
ends. Its figure is not unlike a crescent." For centuries, Utopia
has been seen as an essential work of Renaissance humanism for its
vision of a just and highly organized political system
characterized by the abolition of private property, communal
values, full employment, and free accessible healthcare. While
scholars have long debated whether More envisioned his Utopia as a
positive representation of society or as merely an unattainable
vision of life on earth, his work remains an essential contribution
to political discourse that continues to inform readers today. With
a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Thomas More's Utopia is a classic work of English
literature reimagined for modern readers.
Based on Thomas More's penetrating analysis of the folly and
tragedy of the politics of his time and all times, Utopia (1516) is
a seedbed of alternative political institutions and a perennially
challenging exploration of the possibilities and limitations of
political action. This Norton Critical Edition is built on the
translation that Robert M. Adams created for it in 1975. For the
Third Edition, George M. Logan has carefully revised the
translation, improving its accuracy while preserving the grace and
verve that have made it the most highly regarded modern rendering
of More's Renaissance Latin work. "Backgrounds" includes a
wide-ranging selection of the major secular and religious
texts-from Plato to Amerigo Vespucci-that informed More's thinking,
as well as a selection of the responses to his book by members of
his own humanist circle and an account by G. R. Elton of the
condition of England at the time More wrote. "Criticism" now offers
a more comprehensive survey of modern scholarship, adding excerpts
from seminal books by Frederic Seebohm, Karl Kautsky, and Russell
Ames, as well as selections from stimulating and influential recent
readings by Dominic Baker-Smith and Eric Nelson. In the final
section, on "Utopia's Modern Progeny," the opening chapter of
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is now complemented by excerpts
from another great work in the complex tradition of utopian and
dystopian fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness.
Throughout the Third Edition, the editorial apparatus has been
thoroughly revised and updated. An updated Selected Bibliography is
also included.
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Utopia (Hardcover)
Thomas More; Contributions by Mint Editions
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Utopia (1516) is a work of political satire by Thomas More.
Published in Latin while More was serving as Privy Counsellor under
King Henry VIII, the text is stylized as a true account of a new
civilization discovered in the New World by traveler Raphael
Hythlodaeus. While there have been varying interpretations of
Utopia over the centuries, it is most consistently regarded as a
work of political philosophy in the tradition of Plato's Republic
that satirizes European society by contrast with the laws and
traditions of the Utopian people. "The island of Utopia is in the
middle two hundred miles broad, and holds almost at the same
breadth over a great part of it, but it grows narrower towards both
ends. Its figure is not unlike a crescent." For centuries, Utopia
has been seen as an essential work of Renaissance humanism for its
vision of a just and highly organized political system
characterized by the abolition of private property, communal
values, full employment, and free accessible healthcare. While
scholars have long debated whether More envisioned his Utopia as a
positive representation of society or as merely an unattainable
vision of life on earth, his work remains an essential contribution
to political discourse that continues to inform readers today. With
a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Thomas More's Utopia is a classic work of English
literature reimagined for modern readers.
Introduction by Jenny Mezciems
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Utopia (Paperback)
Thomas More; Translated by Dominic Baker-Smith
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'It remains astonishingly radical ... one of Utopia's most striking
aspects is its contemporaniety' Terry Eagleton In Utopia, Thomas
More gives us a traveller's account of a newly-discovered island
where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason
and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all. As the traveller
describes the island, a bitter contrast is drawn between this
rational society and the practices of Europe. How can the
philosopher reform his society? In his discussion, More takes up a
question first raised by Plato and which is still a challenge in
the contemporary world. In the history of political thought few
works have been more influential than Utopia, and few more
misunderstood. Translated and introduced by Dominic Baker-Smith
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Utopia (Hardcover)
Thomas More; Translated by Dominic Baker-Smith
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In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly
discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based
on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all.
As the traveller, Raphael, describes the island to More, a bitter
contrast is drawn between this rational society and the
custom-driven practices of Europe. So how can the philosopher try
to reform his society? In his fictional discussion, More takes up a
question first raised by Plato and which is still a challenge in
the contemporary world. In the history of political thought few
works have been more influential than Utopia, and few more
misunderstood.
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Utopia (Paperback)
Thomas More; Translated by Paul Turner
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed
worksworldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the
imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this
valuable book.++++The below data was compiled from various
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edition identification: ++++ Utopia Thomas More Blackie and Son,
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Thomas More
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