By Joanne Paul

ISBN-10: 0745692168

ISBN-13: 9780745692166

ISBN-10: 0745692176

ISBN-13: 9780745692173

Thomas extra continues to be the most enigmatic thinkers in background, due largely to the long-lasting mysteries surrounding his best-known paintings, Utopia. He has been variously considered a reformer and a conservative, a civic humanist and a religious Christian, a proto-communist and a monarchical absolutist. His paintings spans modern disciplines from historical past to politics to literature, and his principles have variously been taken up through seventeenth-century reformers and nineteenth-century communists.

Through a accomplished therapy of More's writing, from his earliest poetry to his reflections on affliction within the Tower of London, Joanne Paul engages with either the wealthy type and a few of the basic consistencies that run all through More's works. specifically, Paul highlights More's obstacle with the destruction of what's held 'in common', no matter if or not it's within the commonwealth or within the physique of the church. In so doing, she re-establishes More's position within the heritage of political idea, tracing the reception of his principles to the current day.

Paul's ebook serves as a vital beginning for any scholar encountering More's writing for the 1st time, in addition to offering an cutting edge reconsideration of where of his works within the historical past of ideas.

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