Utopia (Classics of World Literature) (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) - Softcover

Thomas More

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853264741 ISBN 13: 9781853264740

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

Utopia by Thomas More. More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to Christian teachings, who hold all possessions in common, and view gold as worthless. Drawing on the ideas of Plato, St Augustine and Aristotle, Utopia was to prove seminal in its turn, giving rise to the genres of utopian and dystopian prose fiction whose practitioners include Sir Francis Bacon, H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. At once a critique of the social consequences of greed and a meditation on the personal cost of entering public service, Utopia dramatises the difficulty of balancing the competing claims of idealism and pragmatism, and continues to invite its readers to become participants in a compelling debate concerning the best state of a commonwealth.

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Sir Thomas More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to Christian teachings, who hold all possessions in common, and view gold as worthless.

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First published in 1516, during a period of astonishing political and technological change, Sir Thomas More's utopia depicts an imaginary society free of private property, sexual discrimination and religious intolerance.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853264741
• ISBN 13: 9781853264740
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160