{"product_id":"2026200016185-secondhand-utopia","title":"Utopia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1516, Utopia is one of the most audacious and enduring works of political philosophy ever written — a book that dared to imagine a world built not on greed, war, or private ambition, but on reason, communal harmony, and justice. Through the voice of the fictional traveller Raphael Hythloday, Thomas More presents a vivid account of a perfect island society, using its rational laws and customs as a razor-sharp critique of the corruption, inequality, and moral bankruptcy of Tudor England and Renaissance Europe at large. The work masterfully blurs the line between sincere idealism and biting satire, leaving readers across five centuries debating whether More's island paradise is a genuine blueprint for a better world or an elaborate, ironic joke.\n\nMore's genius lies in his creation of a genre — the literary utopia — that would inspire centuries of imitation, from Francis Bacon's New Atlantis to H.G. Wells's A Modern Utopia. Written originally in Latin and addressed to the humanist scholars of his age, the text carries the intellectual weight of Erasmian wit and the moral urgency of a man deeply troubled by the world he inhabited. This Penguin Classics edition makes that world fully accessible to modern readers, and the central question it poses — what would a truly just society actually look like? — remains as urgent and unanswered today as it was when More first put quill to paper.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342775066843,"sku":"2026200016185-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/2aaddf69-42c5-4106-93d1-df465ffd03e7.png?v=1790049161","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016185-secondhand-utopia","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}