TY - BOOK AU - Bom,Erik De AU - Burms,Arnold AU - Dijn,Herman De AU - Giglioni,Guido AU - Kloeg,Julien AU - Mey,Tim De AU - Ruler,Han AU - Ruler,Han van AU - Sissa,Giulia TI - Utopia 1516-2016: More's Eccentric Essay and its Activist Aftermath SN - 9789462982956 U1 - 321./07 PY - 2017///] CY - Amsterdam : PB - Amsterdam University Press, KW - Philosophy KW - Social and Political Sciences KW - PHILOSOPHY / General KW - bisacsh KW - humanism, utopianism, history of political thought, ideology critique, thought experiments N1 - 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; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048532926?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048532926 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048532926/original ER -