Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing 1516–1700 - Hardcover

Davis, J. C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521233968 ISBN 13: 9780521233965

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1981

Synopsis

While great interest has been shown recently in the nature of utopian thought and its significance in western development, much of the discussion has been marked by imprecision and generality. This book opens with an attempt to give clarity, substance and precision to the definition of utopia by isolating its characteristics in contrast with those of other forms of ideal society. The value of these distinctions is shown in a detailed re-examination of the sixteenth-century European writers who developed the re-emergent form of utopia. As a whole, the book brings the discussion of utopian thought closer to the mainstream concerns of the history of political ideas, and provides a major study for all those working in the fields of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century political and social thought.

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Book Description

This book opens with an attempt to give clarity, substance and precision to the definition of utopia by isolating its characteristics in contrast with those of other forms of ideal society. The value of these distinctions is shown in a detailed re-examination of the sixteenth-century European writers who developed the re-emergent form of utopia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0521233968
• ISBN 13: 9780521233965
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 437