Overview
''It remains astonishingly radical ... one of Utopia''s most striking aspects is its contemporaniety'' Terry Eagleton
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 describes the island, a bitter contrast is drawn between this rational society and the practices of Europe. How can the philosopher reform his society? In his 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.
Translated and introduced by Dominic Baker-Smith
- | Author: Thomas More, Dominic Baker-Smith, Dominic Baker-Smith
- | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- | Publication Date: Aug 30, 2012
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- | Language: eng
- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780141442327
- | ISBN-10: 0141442328
