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Utopia de Thomas More

Utopia

Autor Thomas More Cuvânt după de Jerry Harp Traducere de Clarence H. Miller
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 feb 2014

Recomandăm această ediție revizuită a lucrării Utopia ca referință fundamentală pentru studiile de licență în filozofie politică și istoria ideilor. Scrisă în limba latină în 1516, opera lui Thomas More rămâne textul care a dat numele unui întreg gen literar și filozofic, propunând o viziune radicală despre o societate fără proprietate privată și fără bani. Ediția de față se distinge prin modernizarea traducerii clasice realizate de G.C. Richards, oferind un text accesibil ce păstrează rigoarea și spiritul satiric al originalului.

Subliniem structura complexă a volumului, care depășește simpla narațiune a călătorului Raphael Hythloday. Textul este încadrat de un aparat critic valoros ce include corespondența lui More cu Erasmus și referințe la Republica lui Plato, facilitând înțelegerea contextului umanist în care a fost zămislită opera. Cititorii familiarizați cu Thomas More's Utopia de Lawrence Wilde vor aprecia în acest volum materialele auxiliare, precum secțiunile despre limba utopică și scrisorile către contemporani, care oferă o perspectivă directă asupra procesului de creație.

În contextul celorlalte scrieri ale autorului, precum Three Early Modern Utopias, acest volum evidențiază tranziția de la critica socială acerbă la construcția unui model teoretic de „commonwealth”. Progresia de la dialogul filosofic la descrierea detaliată a instituțiilor utopice — de la sistemul de rotație a locuințelor la organizarea muncii de șase ore pe zi — oferă o analiză profundă a tensiunii dintre interesul individual și cel colectiv.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780300186109
ISBN-10: 030018610X
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 1 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 127 x 197 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:Second Edition
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press

Public țintă

Children: Secondary (including GCSE). Academic/professional/technical: Advanced secondary. Academic/professional/technical: Further/higher education. Academic/professional/technical: Undergraduate. Educational purpose: Revision/exam guides

De ce să citești această carte

Această ediție este esențială pentru studenții și cercetătorii care doresc să exploreze rădăcinile gândirii politice moderne. Cititorul câștigă nu doar acces la un text clasic tradus modern, ci și un context istoric bogat prin scrisorile și notele incluse. Este o oportunitate de a înțelege cum o critică din secolul al XVI-lea asupra inegalității rămâne relevantă în dezbaterile contemporane despre dreptate socială.

Despre autor

Thomas More (1478-1535) a fost un om de stat englez, avocat și umanist de prim rang al Renașterii. Educat la Oxford și format în casa Cardinalului Morton, More a legat prietenii strânse cu mari gânditori precum Erasmus. A servit ca Lord Cancelar sub regele Henric al VIII-lea, însă integritatea sa morală și refuzul de a recunoaște supremația regelui asupra Bisericii au dus la execuția sa. Canonizat ulterior, More rămâne o figură centrală a istoriei intelectuale, Utopia fiind moștenirea sa cea mai influentă, o lucrare care îmbină erudiția clasică cu o viziune socială revoluționară.

Descriere scurtă

“This translation offers a fresh and vital encounter with Thomas More’s Utopia for a twenty-first century audience.”—Elizabeth McCutcheon, Utopian Studies
 
Saint Thomas More’s Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism and serves as a key text in survey courses on Western intellectual history, the Renaissance, political theory, and many other subjects. In Utopia, More introduces the mysterious traveler Raphael Hythloday, who tells of an island nation that he considers the most perfectly organized and harmonious in the world. Preeminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of More’s rhetoric in this masterful translation. In an Afterword to this edition, Jerry Harp contextualizes More’s life and Utopia within the wider frames of European humanism and the Renaissance.

Recenzii

“This translation offers a fresh and vital encounter with Thomas More’s Utopia for a twenty-first century audience.”—Elizabeth McCutcheon, Utopian Studies

“Clarence H. Miller’s fine translation tracks the supple variations of More’s Latin with unmatched precision, and his Introduction and notes are masterly. Jerry Harp’s new Afterword adroitly places More’s wonderful little book into its broader contexts in intellectual history.”—George M. Logan, author of The Meaning of More’s “Utopia”

“Sir Thomas More’s Utopia is not merely one of the foundational texts of western culture, but also a book whose most fundamental concerns are as urgent now as they were in 1516 when it was written. Clarence H. Miller’s wonderful translation of More’s classic is now happily once again available to readers. This is the English edition that best captures the tone and texture of More’s original Latin, and its notes and Introduction, along with the lively Afterword by Jerry Harp, graciously supply exactly the kinds of help a modern reader might desire.”—David Scott Kastan, Yale University

Notă biografică

Clarence H. Miller, emeritus professor of English Literature at St. Louis University, served as executive editor of the fifteen-volume Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Jerry Harp, a poet and a Renaissance scholar, is assistant professor of English at Lewis and Clark College.

Descriere

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In Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a community in which laws, personal relations and professional ambition are based on reason, in contrast with the tradition-bound superstitions of Europe, which were, in More's eyes, impediments to equality and peaceful coexistence.

One of the indicators of the profound cultural and political influence of More's masterpiece is today's common use of the word "Utopia" - a term he invented. This extraordinary treatise on the values of rationality and reason - here presented in a sparkling new translation by Roger Clarke and accompanied by copious notes and additional texts - questions what a philosopher can do to enact change in society, and how idealized visions can inform political practice.

A sparkling new translation by Roger Clarke of one of the most influential philosophical works of all time, which renders the original Latin into an English that is clear, readable and true to the spirit of Thomas More's writing.

Accompanied by: Biographical notes on contemporary figures and an index explaining More's Utopian vocabulary; a map of the island of Utopia; correspondence relevant to the text (as well as letters of endorsement and even celebratory verses), written by numerous prominent sixteenth-century European humanists. These letters - presented chronologically and translated from Latin - work in conjunction with the detailed notes on Thomas More's life, the genesis of Utopia and information about the verse metres employed to offer a unique and fascinating insight into the composition and publication of Utopia, which no student of the text should be without. Moreover, they offer a glimpse not only into the character of More, Erasmus and other members of their circle, but also into the world in which they inhabited.

Our edition, therefore, offers unprecedented background detail for an accessible mass-market edition.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

First published in Latin in 1516, Utopia was the work of Sir Thomas More (1477 1535), the brilliant humanist, scholar, and churchman executed by Henry VIII for his refusal to accept the king as the supreme head of the Church of England.
In this work, which gave its name to the whole genre of books and movements hypothesizing an ideal society, More envisioned a patriarchal island kingdom that practiced religious tolerance, in which everybody worked, no one has more than his fellows, all goods were community-owned, and violence, bloodshed, and vice nonexistent. Based to some extent on the writings of Plato and other earlier authors, Utopia nevertheless contained much that was original with More.
In this inexpensive edition, readers can study for themselves the essentials of More's utopian vision and how, although the ideal society he envisioned is still unrealized, at least some of his proposals have come to pass in today's world.
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Cuprins

Introduction
A Note on the Text
Utopia
In Context
Illustration of Utopia
Utopian Language
Poems in the Utopian Tongue
From Thomas More’s Correspondence

  1. from Letter to Erasmus (3 September, 1516)
  2. from Letter to Erasmus (c. 20 September, 1516)
  3. Letter to Erasmus (31 October, 1516)
  4. from Letter to Cuthbert Tunstall (c. November, 1516)
  5. from Letter to William Warham (January, 1517)
From Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation (1534)
From Erasmus, Letter to Ulrich von Hutten (23 July, 1519)
From Plato, Republic (c. 380 BCE)

  1. from Book 3
  2. from Book 4
From Lucian, Saturnalian Letters
From Acts of the Apostles, 4.32–5.11