Utopia: New Translation and Annotated Edition
In Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a community in which laws, personal relations and professional ambition are based on reason, in contrast with the tradition-bound superstitions of Europe, which were, in More's eyes, impediments to equality and peaceful coexistence.One of the indicators of the profound cultural and political influence of More's masterpiece is today's common use of the word Utopia - a term he invented. This extraordinary treatise on the values of rationality and reason - h…
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Weitere Autoren: Clarke, Roger (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-84749-625-6
- EAN: 9781847496256
- Produktnummer: 21948611
- Verlag: Bloomsbury
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H19.9 cm x B12.9 cm x D2.3 cm 272 g
- Gewicht: 272
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As a philosopher, author, statesman and humanist, Thomas More (1478-1535) was one of the most influential thinkers of the English Renaissance. He was a councillor to Henry VIII, who famously ordered his execution, and is venerated as a saint in Catholicism. More's Utopia is considered one of the most influential philosophical works of all time.
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