Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
Auflage | 2020 |
Seiten | 256 |
Format | 11,3 x 17,4 x 2,6 cm |
Gewicht | 254 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Penguin Pocket Hardbacks |
Übersetzer | Dominic Baker-Smith |
ISBN-10 | 0241382688 |
EAN | 9780241382684 |
Bestell-Nr | 24138268EA |
In 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, Raphael, describes the island to More, a bitter contrast is drawn between this rational society and the custom-driven practices of Europe. So how can the philosopher try to reform his society? In his fictional 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.