More's Utopia
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Bibliographic Information
More's Utopia
(Unwin critical library)
Harper Collins Academic, 1991
Available at 12 libraries
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
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  Wakayama
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  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book explores the range of individual readings of "Utopia", as well as considering the general nature of the work - whether it is best approached as an intellectual history, a political science or a literary text. The author argues that the intellectual conflicts that have arisen from these different perspectives were a part of More's own scheme, and that attempts to prove the priority of one or the other are beside the point. However, in as much as it is a literary essay on a political and ideological subject, it seeks to induce an attitude or quality of mind rather than to propose a set of concrete solutions to actual problems.
Table of Contents
- Origins
- "the sceptre of the rulers"
- Platonic satire
- the sanction of custom
- narrative credentials
- the dialogue of counsel
- the best state of a Commonwealth
- word and deeds
- in search of utopia.
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