Utopia: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

Utopia: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

Inspiring, provocative, prophetic, and enigmatic, Utopia is the literary masterpiece of a visionary statesman and one of the most influential books of the modern world.
Based on Thomas Moreâ€™s penetrating analysis of the folly and tragedy of the politics of his time and all times, Utopia (1516) is a seedbed of alternative political institutions and a perennially challenging exploration of the possibilities and limitations of political action.

This Norton Critical Edition is built on the translation that Robert M. Adams created for it in 1975. For the Third Edition, George M. Logan has carefully revised the translation, improving its accuracy while preserving the grace and verve that have made it the most highly regarded modern rendering of Moreâ€™s Renaissance Latin work.

â€œBackgroundsâ€ includes a wide-ranging selection of the major secular and religious textsâ€•from Plato to Amerigo Vespucciâ€•that informed Moreâ€™s thinking, as well as a selection of the responses to his book by members of his own humanist circle and an account by G. R. Elton of the condition of England at the time More wrote.

â€œCriticismâ€ now offers a more comprehensive survey of modern scholarship, adding excerpts from seminal books by Frederic Seebohm, Karl Kautsky, and Russell Ames, as well as selections from stimulating and influential recent readings by Dominic Baker-Smith and Eric Nelson. In the final section, on â€œUtopiaâ€™s Modern Progeny,â€ the opening chapter of Aldous Huxleyâ€™s Brave New World is now complemented by excerpts from another great work in the complex tradition of utopian and dystopian fiction, Ursula K. Le Guinâ€™s The Left Hand of Darkness. Throughout the Third Edition, the editorial apparatus has been thoroughly revised and updated.

An updated Selected Bibliography is also included.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780393932461
ReleaseDate 2010-08-31
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EANs 9780393932461

Country	USA
Brand	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780393932461
ReleaseDate	2010-08-31
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780393932461

Utopia: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

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