Utopia 1516-2016 : More's eccentric essay and its activist aftermath /
This year marks the five-hundredth anniversary of Thomas More's widely influential book Utopia, and this volume brings together a number of scholars to consider the book, its long afterlife, and specifically its effects on political activists over the centuries. In addition to thorough studies...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Langue: | anglais |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
[2017]
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| Accès en ligne: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1n7qk63 |
Table des matières:
- Introduction; Part 1: The book; A praise of pain; Bodies, morals, and religion; Part 2: Original reception; Realism vs utopianism; From Thomas More to Thomas Smith; Part 3: Philosophical criticism; Reflections on the utopian mind; Utopianism in today's health care; Part 4: Philosophical acclaim; Utopianism and its discontents; The integrity of exacerbated ambiguity; Index.