Utopia 1516-2016 : More's Eccentric Essay and Its Activist Aftermath
Utopia 1516-2016 :
More's Eccentric Essay and Its Activist Aftermath
by Han van Ruler and Giulia Sissa
English | 2017 | ISBN: 9462982953 | 244 Pages | PDF | 1.73 MB
More's Eccentric Essay and Its Activist Aftermath
by Han van Ruler and Giulia Sissa
English | 2017 | ISBN: 9462982953 | 244 Pages | PDF | 1.73 MB
This 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.
Han van Ruler is professor of intellectual history of the Renaissance and Baroque at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Giulia Sissa holds a joint appointment in political science and classics at the University of California, Los Angeles.