Utopia 1516-2016 : More's Eccentric Essay and its Activist Aftermath /
Utopia 1516-2016 : More's Eccentric Essay and its Activist Aftermath /
ed. by Han Ruler, Giulia Sissa.
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- 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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 of Utopia itself, and appraisals of More's relationship with Erasmus, the book presents detailed studies of the effect of Utopia on early modern England and the Low Countries, as well as philosophical reflections on ideology and the utopian mind, and much more.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9789462982956 9789048532926
10.1515/9789048532926 doi
Philosophy.
Social and Political Sciences.
PHILOSOPHY / General.
humanism, utopianism, history of political thought, ideology critique, thought experiments.
321./07
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- 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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 of Utopia itself, and appraisals of More's relationship with Erasmus, the book presents detailed studies of the effect of Utopia on early modern England and the Low Countries, as well as philosophical reflections on ideology and the utopian mind, and much more.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9789462982956 9789048532926
10.1515/9789048532926 doi
Philosophy.
Social and Political Sciences.
PHILOSOPHY / General.
humanism, utopianism, history of political thought, ideology critique, thought experiments.
321./07