Books by Thomas More
“More was building on older ideas about an earlier age, an Edenic state, when private property didn’t exist.” Read more...
Ellen Wayland-Smith, Miscellaneou
Interviews where books by Thomas More were recommended
The best books on Utopia, recommended by Ellen Wayland-Smith
Utopia is out of fashion because efforts to set one up normally end disastrously, says author Ellen Wayland-Smith, whose forefathers set up a utopian religious community in the 1840s in Oneida, New York. And yet, they offer a critique of society that, even today, can’t be ignored. She recommends four books on literary utopias and one on real-life attempts to set up idealized communities in the United States.