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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791491703321

Autore

Yoran Hanan <1963->

Titolo

Between utopia and dystopia [[electronic resource] ] : Erasmus, Thomas More, and the humanist Republic of Letters / / Hanan Yoran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield, 2010

ISBN

1-282-56116-2

9786612561160

0-7391-3649-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Classificazione

08.25

Disciplina

199/.492

Soggetti

Humanism - History

Autonomy (Philosophy) - Europe - History - 16th century

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

BETWEEN UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: THE ERASMIAN REPUBLIC OF LETTERS; Chapter 01: Humanism as Form; Chapter 02: The Construction of the Erasmian Republic of Letters; Chapter 03: Erasmian Humanism: The Reform Program of the Universal Intellectual; Part II: THE ERASMIAN REPUBLIC AND ITS DISCONTENTS; Chapter 04: The Politics of a Disembodied Humanist; Chapter 05: More's Richard III: The Fragility of Humanist Discourse; Chapter 06: Utopia and the No-Place of the Erasmian Republic; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Between Utopia and Dystopia offers a new interpretation of Erasmian humanism. It argues that Erasmian humanism created the identity of the universal and critical intellectual, but that this identity undermined the fundamental premises of humanist discourse. It closely reads several works of Erasmus and Thomas More, employing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of intellectual history, and adopting theoretical insights and methodological procedures from various disciplines.