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Title: Utopia (Hackett Publishing Co.) by Thomas More, David Wootton ISBN: 0-87220-376-X Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co. Pub. Date: 03 January, 1999 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.19 (37 reviews)
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.
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: Paradigm of Imperfection
Comment: Throughout the history of the world people have always dreamed of a better life. Though the views of a perfect world are dependent on an individual, Thomas More in his most famous work, Utopia, attempted to show the imaginary state that would be "ideal" for everyone. Or so it seems...Utopia, meaning in Latin "in no place", was written entirely in satire. More purposely filled Utopia with contradictions. While there were many colorful depictions of the imaginary Utopia, More also told exactly why Utopia could only exist where it had already been introduced: nowhere. That being said, Thomas More did accomplish many intriguing arguments against capital punishment- stated through the eyes of Hythloday. Overall the book was beautifully written, but un-careful readers' heads will spin, as the book is full of paradoxes
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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: 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: 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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