Before Utopia: The Making of Thomas More's Mind

by Ross Dealy

Before Utopia demonstrates that Thomas More's Utopia (1516) is not, as is widely accepted, a rhetorical play of spirit but is instead built from a particular philosophy. That philosophy is not Platonism, but classical Stoicism.

Deeply disturbed in his youth by the conviction that he needed to decide between a worldly and a monastic path, Thomas More was transformed in 1504 by Erasmus' De taedio Iesu and Enchiridion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487506597
• ISBN13: 9781487506599
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 8.4"