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Utopia 1516-2016 : More's Eccentric Essay and its Activist Aftermath / ed. by Han Ruler, Giulia Sissa.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (230 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789462982956
  • 9789048532926
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321./07
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.

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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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