De Optimo Reipublicae Statu, Deque Nova Insula Utopia
De Optimo Reipublicae Statu, Deque Nova Insula Utopia

Author: Saint Thomas More

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-02-16

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780521403184

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First published in Latin in 1516, Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most influential books in the Western philosophical and literary tradition and one of the supreme achievements of Renaissance humanism. This is the first edition of Utopia since 1965 (the Yale edition) to combine More's Latin text with an English translation, and also the first edition to provide a Latin text that is both accurate and readable. The text is based on the early editions (with the Froben edition of March 1518 as copy-text), but spelling and punctuation have been regularized in accordance with modern practices. The translation is a revised version of the acclaimed lively and readable Adams translation, which also appears in Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. This edition, which incorporates the results of recent Utopian scholarship, also includes an introduction, textual apparatus, a full commentary and a guide to the voluminous scholarly and critical literature on Utopia.

De Optimo Reipublicae Statu, Deque Nova Insula Utopia, Libri II.
De Optimo Reipublicae Statu, Deque Nova Insula Utopia, Libri II.

Author: Thomas More

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781017204483

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Political Uses of Utopia
Political Uses of Utopia

Author: S. D. Chrostowska

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2017-03-21

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 0231544316

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Utopia has long been banished from political theory, framed as an impossible—and possibly dangerous—political ideal, a flawed social blueprint, or a thought experiment without any practical import. Even the "realistic utopias" of liberal theory strike many as wishful thinking. Can politics think utopia otherwise? Can utopian thinking contribute to the renewal of politics? In Political Uses of Utopia, an international cast of leading and emerging theorists agree that the uses of utopia for politics are multiple and nuanced and lie somewhere between—or, better yet, beyond—the mainstream caution against it and the conviction that another, better world ought to be possible. Representing a range of perspectives on the grand tradition of Western utopianism, which extends back half a millennium and perhaps as far as Plato, these essays are united in their interest in the relevance of utopianism to specific historical and contemporary political contexts. Featuring contributions from Miguel Abensour, Étienne Balibar, Raymond Geuss, and Jacques Rancière, among others, Political Uses of Utopia reopens the question of whether and how utopianism can inform political thinking and action today.

De Optimo Reipublicae Statu, Deque Nova Insula Utopia, Libri Ii
De Optimo Reipublicae Statu, Deque Nova Insula Utopia, Libri Ii

Author: Thomas More

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05-15

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780371939314

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The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More's Utopia
The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More's Utopia

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Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-11-30

Total Pages: 817

ISBN-13: 0198881037

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Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most iconic, translated, and influential texts of the European Renaissance. This Handbook of specially commissioned and original essays brings together for the first time three different ways of thinking about the book: in terms of its renaissance contexts, its vernacular translations, and its utopian legacies. It has been developed to allow readers to consider these different facets of Utopia in relation to each other and to provide fresh and original contributions to our understanding of the book's creation, vernacularization, and afterlives. In so doing, it provides an integrated overview of More's text, as well as new contributions to the range of scholarship and debates that Utopia continues to attract. An especially innovative feature is that it allows readers to follow Utopia across time and place, unpacking the often-revolutionary moments that encouraged its translation by new generations of writers as far afield as France, Russia, Japan, and China. The Handbook is organized in four sections: on different aspects of the origins and contexts of Utopia in the 1510s; on histories of its translation into different vernaculars in the early modern and modern eras; and on various manifestations of utopianism up to the present day. The Handbook's Introduction outlines the biography of More, the key strands of interpretation and criticism relating to the text, the structure of the Handbook, and some of its recurring themes and issues. An appendix provides an overview of Utopia for readers new to the text.

More's Utopia
More's Utopia

Author: Dominic Baker-Smith

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780802083760

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This study plac Utopia in the context of early sixteenth-century Europe and the intellectual preoccupations of More's own humanist circle, and clarifying those sources in classical and Christian political thought that provoked his writing.