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The proceedings of a symposium commemorating the 450th anniversary of Thomas Mores death and the 50th anniversary of his canonization, Interpreting Thomas Mores Utopia presents four leading Morean scholars on various aspects central to understanding Mores masterpiece. An introduction by Governor Mario M. Cuomo in which he assesses Mores influence on his career in public life precedes this stimulating discussion. The contributions, in order of appearance, are A Personal Appreciationby Mario M. Cuomo, The Argument of Utopiaby George M. Logan, The Key to Nowhere: Pride and Utopiaby Thomas I. White, Utopia and Martyrdomby Germain Marchadour, and The Idea of Utopia from Hesiod to John Paul IIby John C. Olin.
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... I cannot agree with all that he said. But I readily admit that there are very many features in the Utopian commonwealth which it is easier for me to wish for in our countries than to have any hope of seeing realized. Thomas More's concluding words in Utopia
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Vtopiae Insvlae Figvra
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Interpreting Thomas More's Utopia
Edited by John C. Olin
Fordham University Press New York
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Copyright 1989 by FORDHAM UNIVERSITY All rights reserved. LC 89-80149 ISBN 0-8232-1233-5
Second printing 1997
Interpreting Thomas More's Utopia
1. More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535. Utopia- Congresses. 2. Utopias - Congresses. I. Olin, John C.
HX810.5.Z6I57335/.02
Printed in the United States of America
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To my son Thomas and my two grandsons who also bear that honored name
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Contents
Editor's Preface
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1. A Personal Appreciation
Mario M. Cuomo
1
2. The Argument of Utopia
George M. Logan
7
3. The Key to Nowhere: Pride and Utopia
Thomas I. White
37
4. Utopia and Martyrdom
Germain Marc'Hadour
61
5. The Idea of Utopia from Hesiod to John Paul II
John C. Olin
77
Illustration
The Island of Utopia. Woodcut from the 1516 Louvain Edition
Frontispiece
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Editor's Preface
On October 17, 1985, we held a symposium at Fordham University on Thomas More's Utopia to commemorate the 450th anniversary of More's death and the fiftieth anniversary of his canonization. This volume presents the papers developed from that occasion as well as the remarks by Mario M. Cuomo that opened the symposium. A concluding essay on "The Idea of Utopia" is appended. More's famous book has been called an open-ended dialogue, and we thought that there was no better way to mark these important anniversaries we wished to commemorate than to continue the discussion More began long ago. It is a discussion, we might note, that is seemingly inexhaustible, so many and so provocative are the issues More raised and so varied the interpretations and points of view his classic has inspired. Thus we seized the opportunity to add our contribution to the ever-continuing debate.
Having frequently read in the press that New York's Governor Cuomo had high regard for Thomas More, whom he often quotes and whose picture hangs on his office wall, we took the initiative of inviting him to speak at our conference. We were delighted and not a little surprised when in mid-summer he informed us that he accepted our invitation. He said he wished to make some introductory remarks at the gathering we planned. Arriving by helicopter on the Rose Hill campus the afternoon of the symposium, Governor Cuomo delivered the memorable comments we publish here. They are a moving testimony of his devotion and his debt to the great English lawyer, statesman, and saint. He makes a reference to Utopia to which I should like to call particular attention. Linking More with Teilhard de Chardin, Governor Cuomo stresses that the contribution of both men by virtue of their Christian humanism was to reconcile God and the world. The author of Utopia, he tells us, sought "to Christify matter," to bring earth to perfection. It is a lesson the Governor has taken to heart.
The other three speakers we invited were obvious choices. Each one is a More scholar well acquainted with Utopia and its author.
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Their essays give ample evidence of the variety of approach and interpretation More's book can produce. I shall briefly introduce them here and say a few words about the theme each develops.
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