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Title: Utopia: A Revised Translation Backgrounds Criticism (Norton Critical Edition) by Robert M. Adams, Thomas, Sir More ISBN: 0-393-96145-1 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.25 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Breath taking
Comment: The vivid imagery in this book is so absolutely unbelievable, it's breath taking.
What would a perfect society do? Say? Eat? Sir Thomas More gives his version of the perfect society in all its splendor in Utopia.
This book is throughly enjoyable for people 12 and above. If you've ever dreamed of a perfect society this is the book for you.
Rating: 3
Summary: Unreal dream.
Comment: Thomas More dreams of a world of tolerance and antimilitarism, but also of collectivism and anticapitalism (a world without money). For him, a world based on private property cannot be prosperous and just. He considered all treaties between prosperous states as a conspiracy of riches.
So, he was more radical than the most diehard leftist of today.
His principal targets are kings, religious authorities and the landowners with their disastrous policy of enclosures, driving all farmers and their families into certain poverty and death.
He gives us also a juicy mockery of the Swiss, who sold themselves as mercenaries to the highest bidders.
This book is still a worth-while read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Between the Middle Ages and the future
Comment: Thomas More's incredible, influential work, has one foot in the Middle Ages and the other in the Renaissance. More reflects on the Middle Ages, but was not yet ready for the Lutheran reformation. More offers both humor (for example, using gold as chamber pots), and political thinking on capitalism. I however think his Utopia is a reflection of the monastic system (without severe asceticism) rather than communism. I'm sure it is no accident that geographic the island of Utopia is similar to England. It is ironic that More did not heed Raphael's advice about servitude to the king. The inclusion of the humanist letters adds further to the humor.
This fine edition includes important predecessor such as Plato's republic and the Acts of the Apostles. Description from Amerigo Vespucci's first voyage, calls to mind Rousseau's "Noble Savage". With the inclusion of selections from Ovid to Brave New World this book includes almost two millennium of utopian thinking.
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Title: The Praise of Folly and Other Writings: A New Translation With Critical Commentary (Norton Critical Edition) by Desiderius Erasmus, Robert M. Adams ISBN: 0393957497 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.80 |
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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: 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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Title: The TEMPEST by William Shakespeare ISBN: 0671722905 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Paradise Lost: An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Sources Criticism (Norton Critical Edition) by John Milton, Scott Elledge ISBN: 0393962938 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.20 |
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