Limited Edition Utopia

Author: More, Saint Thomas, Baker-Smith, Dominic

Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600

Published on 30 August 2012 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 192 pages
198 x 130 x 12 | 144g

‘It remains astonishingly radical … one of Utopia’s most striking aspects is its contemporaniety’ Terry EagletonIn Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller’s account of a newly-discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all. As the traveller describes the island, a bitter contrast is drawn between this rational society and the practices of Europe. How can the philosopher reform his society? In his discussion, More takes up a question first raised by Plato and which is still a challenge in the contemporary world. In the history of political thought few works have been more influential than Utopia, and few more misunderstood.

Translated and introduced by Dominic Baker-Smith