Products specifications
|
Author
|
Thomas More |
|
Pub Date
|
30/08/2012 |
|
Binding
|
Paperback / softback |
|
Pages
|
192 |
|
Country
|
United Kingdom |
|
Dewey
|
321.07 |
|
GBPPrice
|
8.99 |
|
Availability
|
Available |
'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
