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Title: Utopia by Thomas More, David Harris Sacks ISBN: 0-312-12256-X Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 15 April, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.19 (37 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Utopia is satire
Comment: Please, please understand: Utopia is not Thomas Moore's philosophy or dream of perfect world, or something unbearably cruel that he believed was right in real time. Utopia is SATIRE. Entirely satire. Political lampooning.
It is unsettling to read reviews by people who have completely missed this, which is precisely the kind of thing Moore was satirizing.
Read it for the brilliant piece that it is - do not take it literally for heaven's sake!
This is akin to taking Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" seriously, and failing to see the social and political satire - Swift proposes eating Irish children to stop the overpopulation. Satire!
Rating: 5
Summary: A Look at the World Through the Eyes of Moore
Comment: As a social critique this book is very effective with answers to many arguments. Thomas More is a wise, brave and educated man who was executed by orders of Henry VIII, and wrote Utopia more as an explanation of why society needed to be far from perfect in order to be enjoyable. Utopia, meaning in Latin "in no place", was written entirely in satire, and many have said that it was a great source of entertainment for the more educated as they watched those less educated argue on the side of a Utopian state while quoting Moore, and having never seen the satire present while reading. Mr. Moore's Utopia touches on every aspect of the human existance as it would be experienced if we prescribed to this way of life. I found many of his discriptions colorful, and commonly found myself of the verge of anger before realizing that Mr. Morre was more often than not simply playing the devil's advocate.
This was very enjoyable for me. I would recommend that everyone take a risk and read this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: Just another Classic you need to read
Comment: There is a lot of discussion about this book, as there should be. What did More intend when he wrote it, is it a satire or a vision of the perfect society, all are questions people try to ask in their reviews of this volume. Having read this book twice, both times for college courses, I can tell you that the Dover Thrift edition is wonderful, the book is wonderful, the price it right, and you need to read this book. Afterwards, I encourage you to join the debate, something all books strive to do, and greats ones excel at.
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Title: The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli ISBN: 0553212788 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1984 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: The Republic by Plato ISBN: 0486411214 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 18 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $2.50 |
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Title: The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Martin Edward Malia ISBN: 0451527100 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus ISBN: 0486426890 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 10 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: More's Utopia and Utopian Literature (Cliffs Notes) by Harold M. Priest ISBN: 0822013185 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 20 June, 1975 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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