乌托邦 诺顿文学解读系列 英文原版 Norton Critical Editions: Utopia Thomas More

基本信息

By (author) Thomas More , Translated by Robert M. Adams , Edited by George M. Logan

Format Paperback | 320 pages

Dimensions 130 x 213 x 20mm | 325g

Publication date 31 Aug 2010

Publisher WW Norton & Co

Publication City/Country New York, United States

Language English

Edition Revised

Edition Statement Third Edition

ISBN10 039393246X

ISBN13 9780393932461

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

《乌托邦》（Utopia）是英国空想社会主义学者托马斯·莫尔创作的游记，首次出版于1516年。

该书分两卷，第一卷借一位旅人之口，谈他周游列国所见，由此而导入对英国当时情况的观察与批判；第二卷才是对以“乌托邦”命名的一个想象的国家的描述。

《乌托邦》一书是欧洲第一本空想社会主义著作，它第一次完整地描述了空想社会主义的图景。在社会主义思想史上，首次批判了资本原始积累的罪恶，提出了以组织生产、普遍劳动为基础的公有制和平等的原则，奠定了空想社会主义的根基，为以后科学社会主义的发展提供了可贵的思想材料。

Based on Thomas More's penetrating analysis of the folly and tragedy of the politics of his time and all times, Utopia (1516) is a seedbed of alternative political institutions and a perennially challenging exploration of the possibilities and limitations of political action.

This Norton Critical Edition is built on the translation that Robert M. Adams created for it in 1975. For the Third Edition, George M. Logan has carefully revised the translation, improving its accuracy while preserving the grace and verve that have made it the most highly regarded modern rendering of More's Renaissance Latin work.

"Backgrounds" includes a wide-ranging selection of the major secular and religious texts-from Plato to Amerigo Vespucci-that informed More's thinking, as well as a selection of the responses to his book by members of his own humanist circle and an account by G. R. Elton of the condition of England at the time More wrote.

"Criticism" now offers a more comprehensive survey of modern scholarship, adding excerpts from seminal books by Frederic Seebohm, Karl Kautsky, and Russell Ames, as well as selections from stimulating and influential recent readings by Dominic Baker-Smith and Eric Nelson. In the final section, on "Utopia's Modern Progeny," the opening chapter of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is now complemented by excerpts from another great work in the complex tradition of utopian and dystopian fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness. Throughout the Third Edition, the editorial apparatus has been thoroughly revised and updated.

An updated Selected Bibliography is also included.

作者简介

托马斯·莫尔（Thomas More，1478—1535）出生于伦敦一个律师家庭。莫尔幼年曾在当时伦敦的名校圣安东尼学校学习拉丁文。1490—1492年，他在坎特伯雷大主教约翰·莫顿家做家庭侍从。1492年，莫尔进入牛津大学，接受古典教育。通过两年的艰苦学习，他熟练掌握了拉丁语和希腊语。后来由于他父亲坚持要他学法律而离开了牛津大学，转入一家法律预备学校学习。1496年，他进入林肯律师学院学习，直到1502年毕业，正式取得律师资格：此后，莫尔投身政治，以国会议员身份活跃于政坛。他反对亨利七世的重税主义政策，维护纳税人的利益。他的政治主张触怒了国王，以至于他的性命都受到威胁，1509年，亨利八世继位后，他又重新参与政治活动，并在1515年出使弗兰德尔。之后，他成了英王亨利八世的重要顾问，1529—1532年担任英国大法官。1535年以叛国罪被处死。

George M. Logan (Ph.D. Harvard) is a Senior Fellow of Massey College in the University of Toronto and the James Cappon Professor of English Emeritus at Queen's University, Canada, where he was head of the English Department for nine years and an award-winning teacher. He is the author of The Meaning of More's Utopia and principal editor of the Cambridge edition of Utopia (Latin and English), editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Utopia (3rd edition), More's History of King Richard the Third, and The Cambridge Companion to Thomas More, and coeditor, with Gordon Teskey, of Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance; he has also written a history of the Indiana University School of Music. Robert M. Adams was Professor of English (Emeritus) at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was the author of many books, including Ikon: John Milton and the Modern Critics; Strains of Discord; Proteus, His Lies, His Truth: Discussion of Literary Translation; The Land and Literature of England; and Shakespeare-The Four Romances. In addition to the Norton Critical Edition of Utopia (he was translator and editor of the First and Second Editions), Professor Adams was editor of five other Norton Critical Editions, including The Prince by Machiavelli, Candide by Voltaire, and The Praise of Folly and Other Writings by Erasmus, the texts of which he also translated. He was a founding editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.

书籍目录

Preface

Translator?s Note

Abbreviations

The Text of Utopia

Backgrounds

Plato ? [The Guardians]

Ovid ? [The Golden Age and After]

The Acts of the Apostles ? [The Community]

Lucian of Samosata ? [Saturn?s Age]

St. Ambrose ? [Naboth?s Vineyard]

St. Benedict ? [Monastic Rules]

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Anonymous ? From The Land of Cockayne

Amerigo Vespucci ? From The Four Voyages

The First Voyage

The Fourth Voyage

G. R. Elton ? [The Problems of the Realm]

The Humanist Circle: Letters

Peter Giles to Jerome Busleyden

Jerome Busleyden to Thomas More

Guillaume Bude to Thomas Lupset

Erasmus of Rotterdam to Johann Froben

Thomas More to Peter Giles

Erasmus to Ulrich von Hutten