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| Title | : | Utopia |
| Author | : | Thomas More |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 135 pages |
| Published | : | May 6th 2003 by Penguin Classics (first published 1516) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Philosophy. Fiction. Politics. Literature |
Thomas More
Paperback | Pages: 135 pages Rating: 3.53 | 56474 Users | 2645 Reviews
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Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia) is a satirical work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More (1478–1535) published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society as described by the character Raphael Hythloday who lived there some years, who describes and its religious, social and political customs.Define Books Supposing Utopia
| Original Title: | Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia |
| ISBN: | 0140449108 (ISBN13: 9780140449105) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Thomas More, Raphael Hythloday, Peter Giles, Cardinal John Morton, General Utopus |
| Setting: | Antwerp(Belgium) Utopia |
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Ratings: 3.53 From 56474 Users | 2645 ReviewsComment On Of Books Utopia
The perfect society as a critique of Tudor England30 November 2013 I was going to open this commentary with 'where no man has gone before' until I realised that the opening to Star Trek is actually 'Space, the final frontier' and then rambles on a bit more before saying 'to boldly go where no man has gone before'. You may be wondering why I am connecting a book written by a 16th century clergy man with a very popular science-fiction series from the 1960s, and in some cases I may be asking thatThis is another book that I had to read because the title become a word in English...I liked the fact that Thomas More was looking for solutions; solutions we are still looking for in this age of globalization - when every country has their own utopian vision. Perhaps that is the "utopian paradox" - how can we all live in peace with differing definitions of utopianism?
Interesting, mostly just because it's cool to see what people (or at least Thomas More) considered to be an ideal society back then. Because really, it isn't. There's a lot that I thought was really strange about Utopia (Latin for "no place"), but here's what I remember most: when parents are considering marrying their children off, they have the two teenagers stand naked in front of each other (accompanied by dependable chaperones, of course) so they can make sure neither of them has any weird
You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.-- Thomas More, Utopia After reading Hilary Mantel's amazing first two Booker-prizing winning books of her Henry VIII trilogy (Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies), I felt I needed to actually bust into Thomas More's Utopia. How could I consider myself educated and not have at least tasted a bit of More's utopian ideal, his veiled criticisms of European culture and values, and his unobtainable vision of the ideal
Notes collected:"you [Raphael] neither desire wealth nor greatness" More had been assigned by King Henry VIII to get to Flanders. In Brussels he's got a dear friend named Peter, who introduces More to this philosopher/traveller called Raphael Hythloday. His four voyages have been published; he's Portuguese by birth and knows a lot about nations and countries. He's been to Ceylon, India and many other places.But More is puzzled: how such a man is not serving under a monarch....why not to apply
(I read this book as part of a reading project I have undertaken with some other nerdy friends in which we read The Novel: A Biography and some of the other texts referenced by Schmidt.)In 1516, some guy called Thomas More put out this little book describing a fictional place called Utopia. What kills me about this little book is that More wrote it in Latin. Latin. I can barely write in English most days.So this island of Utopia shows a completely organized society where everyone seems to be
JAN 2017: Youtube 6mins 54secsutopia vs. dystopia 6mins 18secs-------------------------------------------------------------------http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06y9b6tDescription: 2016 is the 500th Anniversary of Thomas More's classic work of speculative fiction, which has entered the culture so deeply that the name of his fictional island is the accepted term for our hopes and dreams of a better society. Poet Michael Symmons Roberts dramatisation brings More's strange and enchanting island to
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