Thomas More's Utopia: Arguing for Social Justice

by Lawrence Wilde

Book Overview

The 500th anniversary of the first publication of Thomas More's Utopia invites a reappraisal of its significance, not just as an ironic and playful fiction, but as a serious contribution to social and political thought. More delivers a searing critique of the injustices of his time and imagines a radical alternative based on common ownership and representative government. In this new interpretation, Wilde surveys the context from which Utopia...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138187534
• ISBN13: 9781138187535
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"