Junshin Women’s College, Tokyo. 20 th July 1986
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20144307 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Akio Sawada (corresponding author), Paul Sawada |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 41 (Number 157 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 104-118 |
| Publication date | 2004-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Moreana (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-8105 • E-ISSN: 2398-4961 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/more.2004.41.1-2.12 |
| OpenAlex | W2578699608 |
| Language | EN |
The question posed by the author is: was Thomas More a utopian or a Realpolitiker? Both these ascriptions are defined with reference to More’s Utopia. Professor Sawada tries to reconstruct historically the intention of More the author of Utopia in contrast to the persona More and its interlocutor Raphaël, and concludes that More was a realist ‘man of law’ living in transcendent hope: a Christian gentleman with spes in caelis et pes in terries
Art · Art history · Humanities · Persona · Sociology · Utopia · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |