George M. Logan - Utopia

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Thomas More

Utopia

Edited By

George M. Logan

Translated By

Robert M. Adams

Third Edition

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Appearing by fortunate happenstance on the 500th anniversary of the initial publication of More's masterpiece, this third edition of the Cambridge Texts Utopia (first edition 1989) was undertaken to update the editorial apparatus Introduction, Suggestions for further reading, footnotes in the light of scholarship published since the appearance of the second edition (2002) and also in response to my more recent thoughts on the best way of presenting this endlessly provocative and enigmatic little work of sixteenth-century Latin humanism to twenty-first-century English readers. But while there are changes to the editorial appurtenances, the translations of the texts they support that of Utopia itself and of the ancillary materials from the first four editions of the work (151618) are unchanged from the 2002 edition. That edition incorporated the extensive changes to the Robert M. Adams translation that were made for the 1995 LatinEnglish edition of Utopia that I prepared with the late Professor Adams and, after failing health forced him to withdraw from the project, with Clarence H. Miller. Especially since the latter edition had become standard for most purposes, it seemed desirable to incorporate the reworked translation into the Cambridge Texts edition, and without further revisions.reason, the present edition exactly reproduces the 2002 version of the translation.