Beyond Utopia
Thomas More as a political thinker
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11345356 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joanne Paul (0000-0003-1658-5261, University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 353-369 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of European Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0191-6599 • E-ISSN: 1873-541X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01916599.2023.2267055 |
| OpenAlex | W4387492378 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 20 |
Despite his producing voluminous writings beyond Utopia, scholarly consensus seems to be that if we want to understand the political thought of Thomas More, we must turn to this 'little book'.This approach, however, has yielded little consensus about how to categorise More as a political thinker, as Utopia is notoriously and intentionally enigmatic.This article attempts to generate a portrait of More as a political thinker by going beyond an investigation of Utopia alone and taking into consideration those texts often overlooked or rejected by scholars, primarily his polemical and religious writings.Doing so provides an outline of More as a thinker concerned with themes of natural and artificial inequality, popular authority and representation and, at the least, justifies the exercise of reading More's work beyond Utopia
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Representation (politics · Sociology · Utopia · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Religion and Society Interactions
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |