The Meaning of More's Utopia (Princeton Legacy Library) - Hardcover
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Examining its relation to ancient and Renaissance political thought, George M. Logan sees Thomas More's Utopia whole, in all its ironic complexity. He finds that the book is not primarily a prescriptive work that restates the ideals of Christian humanism or warns against radical idealism, but an exploration of a particular method of political study and the implications of that method for normative theory.
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"The best book on Utopia for advanced students."--Clarence H. Miller, executive editor ofThe Complete Works of St. Thomas More
"An outstanding modern critical account of Utopia."--Davis Wootton, author ofThomas More Utopia
About the Author
George M. Logan is the James Cappon Professor of English (Emeritus) at Queen's University, Canada, and a Senior Fellow of Massey College in the University of Toronto. A leading More scholar, he is the author of an influential book on Utopia, principal editor of the Cambridge edition of that work and editor of More's History of King Richard the Third, as well as senior editor of the sixteenth-century section of the distinguished Norton Anthology of English Literature.
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- PublisherPrinceton University Press
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0691065578
- ISBN 13 9780691065571
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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