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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782715203321

Autore

Starnes Colin

Titolo

The new republic : a commentary on book I of More's Utopia showing its relation to Plato's Republic / / Colin Starnes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1990

ISBN

1-282-23342-4

9786613811165

0-88920-595-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (137 pages)

Disciplina

321/.07

Soggetti

Utopias

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-118) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Author's Note; Preface; Introduction; Commentary on Book I of More's Utopia; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Colin Starnes radical interpretation of the long-recognized affinity of Thomas More's Utopia and Plato's Republic confirms the intrinsic links between the two works. Through commentary on More's own introduction to Book I, the author shows the Republic is everywhere present as the model of the ""best commonwealth,"" which More must first discredit as the root cause of the dreadful evils in the collapsing political situation of sixteenth-century Europe.