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Utopia

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Full Title:

Utopia

Contributors:

By (Author) Thomas More
Translated by Dominic Baker-Smith
Introduction by Dominic Baker-Smith
Edited by Dominic Baker-Smith

ISBN:

9780241382684

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:

Penguin Classics

Publication Date:

3rd March 2020

UK Publication Date:

27th February 2020

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Medieval Western philosophy
Political science and theory

Dewey:

321.07

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

256

Dimensions:

Width 111mm, Height 175mm, Spine 23mm

Weight:

248g

Description

New to the Penguin Pocket Hardbacks series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound editions 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.

Author Bio

Thomas More Thomas More was born a Londoner in 1477 or 1478. He served as a page, then studied at Oxford, was called to the bar and subsequently had a highly successful career in the City. Sent on an embassy to Flanders in 1515, he began Utopia there and completed it back in London. From 1528 he actively resisted innovation in religious matters and clashed with Henry VIII over his break with the Church. In July 1535, after he refused to accept royal supremacy over the church, he was tried as a traitor at Westminster Hall and beheaded on Tower Hill. He was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935.Dominic Baker-Smith OBE was a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, Professor of English at University College, Cardiff, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam. His books included More's 'Utopia' (2000) and he edited three volumes in the University of Toronto Press' Collected Works of Erasmus.

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