In Utopia Thomas More painted a fantastical picture of a distant island where society is perfected & people live in harmony yet its title means 'no place' & More's hugely influential work was ultimately an attack on his own corrupt dangerous times & on the failings of humanity Throughout history some books have changed the world They have transformed the way we see ourselves
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Thomas More's Utopia is a masterpiece of Renaissance political philosophy responsible for introducing the term 'utopia' & spawning an entire genre of 'utopian' & 'dystopian' literature This Penguin Classics edition is a major new translation from the Latin by Dominic Baker-Smith &

Includes:: an introduction & notes on the text' Even if you can't eradicate harmful ideas or remedy established evils that's no reason to turn your back on the body politic' 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 & justice & human fulfilment is open to all As the traveller Raphael describes the island to More a bitter contrast is drawn between this rational society & the custom-driven practices of Europe So how can the philosopher try to reform his society? In his fictional discussion More takes up a question first raised by Plato & which is still a challenge in the contemporary world In the history of political thought few works have been more influential than Utopia & few more misunderstood Dominic Baker-Smith's introduction examines the conflicting voices & perspectives of More's masterpiece & relates them to the European context of his time This new edition also

Includes:: a chronology notes appendices glossary & suggested further reading Thomas More (1478-1535) succeeded Cardinal Wolsey as Lord Chancellor of England but came into conflict with the king Henry VIII by refusing to acknowledge him as sole head of the church Charged with high treason More steadfastly refused to take an oath impugning the pope's authority or upholding the king's divorce from Catherine of Aragon More was tried as a traitor at Westminster Hall & beheaded on Tower Hill He was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935 If you enjoyed Utopia you might like Plato's Republic also available in Penguin Classics



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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn Utopia for Realists Rutger Bregman shows that we can construct a society with visionary ideas that are in fact wholly implementable Every milestone of civilisation
- from the end of slavery to the beginning of democracy
- was once considered a utopian fantasy New utopian ideas such as universal basic income & a fifteen-hour work week can become reality in our lifetime

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After the financial crash & the Great Recession the media rediscovered Karl Marx socialist theory & the very idea that capitalism can be questioned 180 pages Kunkel Benjamin ...

There are many debates about utopia
- What constitutes a utopia? Are utopias benign or dangerous? Is the idea of utopianism essential
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