A More Perfect Union
Joshua Livestro
- Title
- Utopia 1516-2016
- Subtitle
- More's Eccentric Essay and its Activist Aftermath
- Editors
- Han van Ruler
- Giulia Sissa
- Price
- € 117,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789462982956
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 244
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 19 - 01 - 2017
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Category
- Philosophy
- Discipline
- Social and Political Sciences
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Introduction
A praise of pain
Thomas More™fs anti-utopianism
GIULIA SISSA
Bodies, morals, and religion
Utopia and the Erasmian idea of human progress
HAN VAN RULER
Realism vs utopianism
The problem of the Prince in the early-modern Netherlands
ERIK DE BOM
From Thomas More to Thomas Smith
Utopian and anti-utopian understandings of economic change in
sixteenth-century England
GUIDO GIGLIONI
Reflections on the utopian mind
ARNOLD BURMS
Utopianism in today™fs health care
HERMAN DE DIJN
Utopianism and its discontents
A conceptual history
JULIEN KLOEG
The integrity of exacerbated ambiguity
More™fs Utopia as an evaluative thought experiment
TIM DE MEY
Reviews and Features
"The strengths of this collection lie in the fact that it brings together scholars working in various disciplines“philosophy, political science, classics, and intellectual history“and its authors’ attention to particular aspects of Utopia’s context and influence, many of which have been little considered previously." - Chloë Houston, University of Reading, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. LXXI, No. 1
Han van Ruler, Giulia Sissa (eds)
Utopia 1516-2016
More's Eccentric Essay and its Activist Aftermath
This year marks the five-hundredth anniversary of Thomas More's widely influential book Utopia, and this volume brings together a number of scholars to consider the book, its long afterlife, and specifically its effects on political activists over the centuries. In addition to thorough studies of Utopia itself, and appraisals of More's relationship with Erasmus, the book presents detailed studies of the effect of Utopia on early modern England and the Low Countries, as well as philosophical reflections on ideology and the utopian mind, and much more.
Editors
Han van Ruler
Han van Ruler is professor of Intellectual History of the Renaissance and the Baroque at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is general editor of Brill's Studies in Intellectual History and scientific director of the Dutch Research School of Philosophy. Van Ruler co-edited the Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Dutch Philosophers (Thoemmes, 2003) and has made numerous modern editions of seventeenth-century philosophical sources. He is presently preparing a book on Erasmus' impact on moral philosophy.
Giulia Sissa
Giulia Sissa holds a joint appointment in Political Science and Classics at the University of California Los Angeles. She is the author of numerous books and articles on the history, anthropology and philosophy of the ancient world, including: Greek Virginity (Boston, Harvard UP, 1990); Sex and Sensuality in the Ancient World (Yale UP, 2008) and La Jalousie. Une passion inavouable (Paris, Odile Jacob, 2015). Sissa is currently working on the quest for the best government, from Athens to Utopia.
