The complete online text of Utopia by Thomas More.

The life of the English humanist and statesman Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) exemplifies the political and spiritual upheaval of the Reformation. The author of "Utopia," he was beheaded for opposing the religious policy of Henry VIII. Thomas More was born...

Sir Thomas More is--in the phrase associated with him since the early sixteenth century--a man for all seasons. World renowned as the author of Utopia (1516), he wrote humanist, polemical, and spiritual works in Latin and English and thereby contributed...

Sir Thomas More's place in the history of rhetoric and logic is secure for two reasons. First, he enacted the "new learning" of the studia humanitatis, translating and transforming ancient literature to produce a new literature keyed to his age; second,...

"Utopia" is a term that English statesman and author Thomas More coined in the early sixteenth century in his novel of the same name. It is derived from two Greek words:Eutopia (meaning "good place") and Outopia (meaning...

Utopianism is an approach to social or political theory based upon the design of a perfect society (a ‘utopia’, after the title of Sir Thomas More’s example of the genre, from 1516, using an imaginary island of that name). Earlier...

An ideal state suggested in Plato’s Republic and Thomas More’s Utopia. In subsequent centuries many socialists, including OWEN and FOURIER, devised utopian community schemes. Many utopias attempt to minimize the amount of work and division...

Originally the title of a book by Sir Thomas More (1477–1535). The term is now used to describe an imaginary or hypothetical (especially impossible to achieve) realm or State in which everything is...

Utopia (from Greek: οὐ, "not", and τόπος, "place" as well as εὖ, "good" or "well", and τόπος ["good place"]—the double meaning was probably intended) is a fictional island near the coast of the Atlantic Ocean written about by Sir...

Vita Fortunati, Oscar Steimberg, and Luigi Volta, eds. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 1994. 366 pp. The essays in this collection, a collaborative enterprise involving the Faculty of Social Sciences, Philosophy, and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires, the University of Bologna's...

INTRODUCTION(1) The flourishing condition of the State of Utopia, lately admitted into the Union, renders it an interesting subject of inquiry. The absence of party-spirit; the harmony with which all the internal affairs of that Common-Wealth are conducted; the prompt & satisfactory...

"The Coast of Utopia," Tom Stoppard's sprawling tale of 19th-century Russian intellectuals, and "Spring Awakening," a pounding post-rock musical of teenage sexual anxiety, dominated the recently concluded Broadway season.And there's no reason to believe they won't do the same Sunday at the 2007 Tony Awards...

"The Coast of Utopia" was chosen best play of the New York theater season, and "Spring Awakening" was named best musical in awards given Sunday by the Drama Desk, an organization of theater journalists."Utopia," Tom Stoppard's epic look at 19th century Russian intellectuals, was the...

Hexter's essay, "Utopia and Its Historical Milieu" has been recognized since its publication as a groundbreaking contribution to More scholarship. The excerpt that follows presents Hexter's observations on Christian Humanism as the context for the Utopia; in the concluding section, "The Radicalism of Utopia," Hexter argues that More's vision transcended its time in its image of social equality.

In the following excerpt from their introduction to Utopian Thought in the Western World, the critics discuss several aspects of Utopian literature, including: Utopian literary forms, critical approaches to interpretation of Utopian literature, the influence of New World exploration and scientific discovery on Utopian thought, the cultural traditions that have influenced the western conception of utopia, and the characteristics of the Utopian writer.

In the following essay, Nydahl surveys the utopian vision expressed in American fictional works of the late eighteenth century.

Provides insight into Sir Thomas More's novel, Utopia. Explores its conception, the reasoning behind its ideology and what events in Thomas More's life made him write it.

In his book "Utopia," Thomas More argues that human sin and inequities can be nearly eliminated by placing them in an environment removes the need to commit sinful actions. In More's concept of utopian society, people are honest and equal because of the way that society is structured.

Essay describes what steps need to taken to have a Utopic society as well as the advantages one would provide.