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Utopia

Utopia - Classics of World Literature

Paperback (05 Mar 1997)

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Publisher's Synopsis

With an Introduction by Mishtooni Bose. More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to Christian teachings, who hold all possessions in common, and view gold as worthless. Drawing on the ideas of Plato, St Augustine and Aristotle, Utopia was to prove seminal in its turn, giving rise to the genres of utopian and dystopian prose fiction whose practitioners include Sir Francis Bacon, H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. At once a critique of the social consequences of greed and a meditation on the personal cost of entering public service, Utopia dramatises the difficulty of balancing the competing claims of idealism and pragmatism, and continues to invite its readers to become participants in a compelling debate concerning the best state of a commonwealth.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781853264740
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Imprint: Wordsworth Editions
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 112g
Height: 198mm
Width: 128mm
Spine width: 10mm