Thomas More: Utopia | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780141442327 | Utopia | Thomas More | Taschenbuch | XXXVII | Englisch | 2012

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'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

Über den Autor

Thomas More was born a Londoner in 1477 or 1478. He served as a page, then studied at Oxford, was called to the bar and subsequently had a highly successful career in the City. Sent on an embassy to Flanders in 1515, he began Utopia there and completed it back in London. From 1528 he actively resisted innovation in religious matters and clashed with Henry VIII over his break with the Church. In July 1535, after he refused to accept royal supremacy over the church, he was tried as a traitor at Westminster Hall and beheaded on Tower Hill. He was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935.

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Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	XXXVII 146 S.
ISBN-13:	9780141442327
ISBN-10:	0141442328
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	More, Thomas
Redaktion:	Baker-Smith, Dominic
Übersetzung:	Baker-Smith, Dominic
Hersteller:	Penguin Books Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	205 x 131 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Thomas More
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.08.2012
Gewicht:	0,151 kg