First published in 1516, Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European human-ism. Through the voice of the mysterious traveler Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communist city-state governed by reason. Addressing such issues as religious pluralism, women's rights, state-sponsored education, colonialism, and justified war-fare, Utopia seems remarkably contemporary nearly five centuries after it was written, and it remains a foundational text in philosophy and political theory. Preeminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of More's rhetoric in this new translation. Professor Miller includes a helpful introduction that outlines some of the important problems and issues that Utopia raises, and also provides informative commentary to assist the reader throughout this challenging and rewarding exploration of the meaning of political community. "What Clarence Miller attempts—and accomplishes here is a nuanced and textured rendition in English that says neither less nor more than the Latin itself." —Daniel Kinney, University of Virginia "This translation is fluent, flexible, colloquial, even slangy in places, admirably reflecting the tone of the original." —Louis Martz, Yale University Clarence H. Miller, now emeritus, was Dorothy McBride Orthwein Professor of English Literature at St. Louis University. He served as executive editor of the fifteen-volume Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More and is the author or editor of more than a dozen other books.

ISBN: 9780300084290