Steve's review
Utopia (Penguin Classics)
by Sir Thomas More
Steve's review
Utopia (Penguin Classics) by Sir Thomas More
Steve's review
rating:
This book coined not only a word that we are all familiar with, but a whole idea of what life could be. More's ideas have been used as inspiration by numerous groups of people attempting to found their own Utopian societies, like the Shakers or Karl Marx. However, More seems less to advocate such fantastic, unrealistic dreams than to warn his readers of the potential catastrophes that could result in their realization. This is necessary reading not just due to the breadth of its influence (everything from Communism to Huxley and Orwell's futuristic ruminations on the same subject), but of its own right.
