TY - BOOK AU - Sissa,Giulia AU - Ruler,J.A.van TI - Utopia 1516-2016: More's eccentric essay and its activist aftermath SN - 9789048532926 AV - HX810.5.Z6 U88 2017eb U1 - 321.07 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Amsterdam PB - Amsterdam University Press KW - More, Thomas, KW - Utopia (More, Thomas, Saint) KW - fast KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - PHILOSOPHY KW - Benelux countries KW - England KW - Angleterre KW - Electronic books N1 - All articles in this book have been published in the journal Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, vol. 108 (2016) no. 3; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; Part 1: The book; A praise of pain; Bodies, morals, and religion; Part 2: Original reception; Realism vs utopianism; From Thomas More to Thomas Smith; Part 3: Philosophical criticism; Reflections on the utopian mind; Utopianism in today's health care; Part 4: Philosophical acclaim; Utopianism and its discontents; The integrity of exacerbated ambiguity; Index N2 - This year marks the five-hundredth anniversary of Thomas More's widely influential book Utopia, and this volume brings together a number of scholars to consider the book, its long afterlife, and specifically its effects on political activists over the centuries. In addition to thorough studies of Utopia itself, and appraisals of More's relationship with Erasmus, the book presents detailed studies of the effect of Utopia on early modern England and the Low Countries, as well as philosophical reflections on ideology and the utopian mind, and much more UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1498667 ER -