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Thomas More (Classic Thinkers)
Joanne Paul
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Hardcover. Thomas More remains one of the most enigmatic thinkers in history, due in large part to the enduring mysteries surrounding his best-known work, Utopia. He has been variously thought of as a reformer and a conservative, a civic humanist and a devout Christian, a proto-communist and a monarchical absolutist. Series: Classic Thinkers. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH; HPCB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
Thomas More remains one of the most enigmatic thinkers in history, due in large part to the enduring mysteries surrounding his best-known work, Utopia. He has been variously thought of as a reformer and a conservative, a civic humanist and a devout Christian, a proto-communist and a monarchical absolutist. His work spans contemporary disciplines from history to politics to literature, and his ideas have variously been taken up by seventeenth-century reformers and nineteenth-century communists.
Thomas More remains one of the most enigmatic thinkers in history, due in large part to the enduring mysteries surrounding his best-known work, Utopia. He has been variously thought of as a reformer and a conservative, a civic humanist and a devout Christian, a proto-communist and a monarchical absolutist. His work spans contemporary disciplines from history to politics to literature, and his ideas have variously been taken up by seventeenth-century reformers and nineteenth-century communists.
Through a comprehensive treatment of More's writing, from his earliest poetry to his reflections on suffering in the Tower of London, Joanne Paul engages with both ... Read more
Paul's book serves as an essential foundation for any student encountering More's writing for the first time, as well as providing an innovative reconsideration of the place of his works in the history of ideas.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Polity
Condition
New
Series
Classic Thinkers
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745692166
SKU
V9780745692166
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About Joanne Paul
Joanne Paul is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Sussex.
Reviews for Thomas More (Classic Thinkers)
"For too long, there have been multiple Mores: Thomas More – the 'man for all seasons' – has also seemed to be a man of many faces: More's identities as a statesman, humanist, and saint have seemed riven from each other and bafflingly incompatible. In this brilliant, lucid, and pithy account, Joanne Paul reunites More with himself by identifying the ... Read more