Thomas More coined the word 'Utopia' (meaning 'Noplace') to emphasise his conviction that humanity had never yet attained to the ideal society. Writing in 1516, More attempted to describe the basis of just such a society, founded upon the principles of rationality and equality. But More's vision is [...]
Hans Holbein's famous portrayal of Sir Thomas More is one of the artist's greatest and most popular portraits. In the opening piece of this appealing new volume, "A Letter to Thomas More, Knight," award-winning author Hilary Mantel vividly imagines the background to the creation of this extraordinar[...]
\u201cUtopia poses a question. Not simply in the sense of a problem to be resolved and at the same time eliminated . . . but in the sense that, within the economy of the human condition, utopia, the aim of social alterity-of all social otherness-is ceaselessly being reborn, coming back to life despi[...]
Helgon och husfadern, lagkunnig och litteratör, betrodd av sin konung Henrik VIII, med rikets högsta ämbetet, lordkanslerns, och av samme konung dömd till döden för högförräderi, då han vägrade att erkänna denne som kyrkans överhuvud. Hans namn var Thomas More och han lever mellan 1478 [...]
Thomas More's Utopia marked its five-hundredth year in 2016, and it remains as fascinating and influential as ever. More wrote the book out of frustration at the conditions of his time, in an England where corruption and misrule were rampant. But from the very earliest days it resonated far beyond E[...]
Thomas More: Utopia/ Francis Bacon: New Atlantis/Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More introduced into the English language not only a new word, but a new way of thinking about the gulf between what ought to be and what is. His Utopia is at once a scath[...]
16th-century classic by English ecclesiastic and scholar envisioned a tolerant, patriarchal island kingdom free of private property, violence, bloodshed and vice. Forerunner of many later attempts.
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