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Utopia 1516-2016 : More's eccentric essay and its activist aftermath / edited by Han van Ruler and Giulia Sissa.
Van Pelt Library HX810.5.Z6 U88 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535. Utopia.
- More, Thomas.
- Utopia (More, Thomas, Saint).
- Benelux countries.
- England.
- Local Subjects:
- More, Thomas.
- Physical Description:
- 243 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Book
- A praise of pain: Thomas More's anti-utopianism / Giulia Sissa Sissa, Giulia 25
- Bodies, morals, and religion: Utopia and the Erasmian idea of human progress / Han van Ruler Ruler, Han van 71
- Part 2 Original Reception
- Realism vs utopianism: The problem of the Prince in the early-modern Netherlands / Erik De Bom Bom, Erik De 109
- From Thomas More to Thomas Smith: Utopian and anti-utopian understandings of economic change in sixteenth-century England / Guido Giglioni Giglioni, Guido 143
- Part 3 Philosophical Criticism
- Reflections on the Utopian mind / Arnold Burms Burms, Arnold 171
- Utopianism in today's health care / Herman De Dijn Dijn, Herman De 185
- Part 4 Philosophical Acclaim
- Utopianism and its discontents: A conceptual history / Julien Kloeg Kloeg, Julien 207
- The integrity of exacerbated ambiguity: More's Utopia as an evaluative thought experiment / Tim De Mey Mey, Tim De 225.
- Notes:
- All articles in this book have been published in the journal Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, vol. 108 (2016) no. 3.
- Index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Beverly Bennett Rutstein CW'50 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789462982956
- 9462982953
- OCLC:
- 944087470
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