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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Tác giả khác: Sissa, Giulia, 1954- (Biên tập viên), Ruler, J. A. van, 1963- (Biên tập viên)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press [2017]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1n7qk63
Mục lục:
  • 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.