Utopia: Thomas More
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (774 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300084285 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 210 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Through the voice of the mysterious traveller Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communist city-state governed by reason. First published in 1516, Saint Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism. Precminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of More's rhetoric in this new translation. Professor Miller includes a helpful introduction that outlines some of the important problems and issues that Utopia raises, and also provides informative commentary to assist the reader throughout this challenging and rewarding exploration of the meaning of political community.. Addressing such issues as religious pluralism, women's rights, state-sponsored education, colonialism, and justified warfare, Utopia seems remarkably contemporary nearly five centuries after it was written, and it remains a foundational text in philosophy and political theory
Miller, now emeritus, was Dorothy McBride Orthwein Professor of English Literature at St. Clarence H. Thomas More and is the author or editor of more than a dozen other books. Louis University. . He served as executive editor of the fifteen-volume Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St
Jeffrey Van Wagoner said This book is where the term 'Utopia' comes from. This book has been on my reading list for a while, and I finally grabbed a copy to read when I got my Kindle. Thomas More, as well as many other famous men, put to writing a vision of the ideal society. As with most visions of the ideal society, he had some good ideas that were eventually put in place, but he also had many impractical ideas that won't work just due to the nature of man. It was also interesting to see that he came from an era that accepted several social mores such as slavery that today we find unacceptable and were deemed. Classic of Western Civilization Sounds of the Rainforest CD The year 2016 is the five century anniversary of this book, though it was originally pubished in Latin. As such, reading a biography of More that includes 'Utopia' commentary is helpful because of the time frame it was written in and the translation that occurred.I found it interesting the book was published in Belgium and wasn't available in Britain during More's life, Shakespeare wasn't the only writer to deal with censors.I am glad I read this after Brexit, More is very critical of leagues and alliances as a loss of power to labour. A . Fry Boy said Interesting tales, particulary the lesser-known "Isle of Pines". As usual, Oxford does a good job with translations, introductions and notes.More's "Utopia" is the longest and best of the three works presented in this book, at least as far as fleshing out the details of how a utopian civilization would really look, particularly when situated among other civilizations. But, since most people are familiar with it to some degree, I'll discuss the other two writings in more detail.Bacon's "New Atlantis" is the least satisfying of the three utopian civilizations. First, it isn't complete, barely beginning b
"Fluent and highly readable, this new version should be welcomed by all admirers of the Utopia." -- Louis Martz, Yale University