Utopia: Classics of World Literature
Autor Thomas Moreen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mar 1997
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-10: 1853264741
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: bibliography
Dimensiuni: 127 x 198 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Ediția:New
Editura: WORDSWORTH EDITIONS LTD
Colecția Classics of World Literature
Seria Classics of World Literature
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
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
More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to Christian teachings, who hold all possessions in common, and view gold as worthless. Drawing on the ideas of Plato, St Augustine and Aristotle, Utopia was to prove seminal in its turn, giving rise to the genres of utopian and dystopian prose fiction whose practitioners include Sir Francis Bacon, H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. At once a critique of the social consequences of greed and a meditation on the personal cost of entering public service, Utopia dramatises the difficulty of balancing the competing claims of idealism and pragmatism, and continues to invite its readers to become participants in a compelling debate concerning the best state of a commonwealth.
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Descriere
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.
Notă biografică
More opposed the Protestant Reformation, directing polemics against the theology of Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin and William Tyndale. More also opposed King Henry VIII's separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to acknowledge Henry as Supreme Head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted of treason and executed. On his execution, he was reported to have said: "I die the King's good servant, and God's first".
Pope Pius XI canonised More in 1935 as a martyr. Pope John Paul II in 2000 declared him the patron saint "of Statesmen and Politicians".[11][12] The Soviet Union in the early twentieth century honoured him for the purportedly communist attitude toward property rights in Utopia
Born on Milk Street in London, on 7 February 1478, Thomas More was the son of Sir John More,[16] a successful lawyer and later a judge[17], and his wife Agnes (née Graunger). He was the second of six children. More was educated at St Anthony's School, then considered one of London's best schools.[18][19] From 1490 to 1492, More served John Morton, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor of England, as a household page.[20]:xvi Morton enthusiastically supported the "New Learning" (scholarship which was later known as "humanism" or "London humanism"), and thought highly of the young More. Believing that More had great potential, Morton nominated him for a place at the University of Oxford (either in St. Mary Hall or Canterbury College, both now gone).[21]:38
More began his studies at Oxford in 1492, and received a classical education. Studying under Thomas Linacre and William Grocyn, he became proficient in both Latin and Greek. More left Oxford after only two years-at his father's insistence-to begin legal training in London at New Inn, one of the Inns of Chancery.[20]:xvii[22] In 1496, More became a student at Lincoln's Inn, one of the Inns of Court, where he remained until 1502, when he was called to the Bar
Cuprins
A Note on the Text
Utopia
In Context
Illustration of Utopia
Utopian Language
Poems in the Utopian Tongue
From Thomas More’s Correspondence
- from Letter to Erasmus (3 September, 1516)
- from Letter to Erasmus (c. 20 September, 1516)
- Letter to Erasmus (31 October, 1516)
- from Letter to Cuthbert Tunstall (c. November, 1516)
- from Letter to William Warham (January, 1517)
From Erasmus, Letter to Ulrich von Hutten (23 July, 1519)
From Plato, Republic (c. 380 BCE)
- from Book 3
- from Book 4
From Acts of the Apostles, 4.32–5.11