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Book SynopsisThis year marks the five-hundredth anniversary of Thomas More's widely influential book
Utopia, and this volume brings together a number of scholars to consider the book, its long afterlife, and specifically its effects on political activists over the centuries. In addition to thorough studies of Utopia itself, and appraisals of More's relationship with Erasmus, the book presents detailed studies of the effect of Utopia on early modern England and the Low Countries, as well as philosophical reflections on ideology and the utopian mind, and much more.
Trade Review"The strengths of this collection lie in the fact that it brings together scholars working in various disciplines“philosophy, political science, classics, and intellectual history“and its authors’ attention to particular aspects of Utopia’s context and influence, many of which have been little considered previously." - Chloë Houston, University of Reading,
Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. LXXI, No. 1
Table of ContentsIntroduction A praise of pain Thomas More™fs anti-utopianism GIULIA SISSA Bodies, morals, and religion Utopia and the Erasmian idea of human progress HAN VAN RULER Realism vs utopianism The problem of the Prince in the early-modern Netherlands ERIK DE BOM From Thomas More to Thomas Smith Utopian and anti-utopian understandings of economic change in sixteenth-century England GUIDO GIGLIONI Reflections on the utopian mind ARNOLD BURMS Utopianism in today™fs health care HERMAN DE DIJN Utopianism and its discontents A conceptual history JULIEN KLOEG The integrity of exacerbated ambiguity More™fs Utopia as an evaluative thought experiment TIM DE MEY
