Utopia (Annotated)

Thomas More's Utopia (1516) is a foundational work of Renaissance humanist political thought, cast as a dialogue between More, Peter Giles, and the fictional traveler Raphael Hythloday. Its two-part structure moves from a critique of European injustice—enclosures, punitive law, courtly corruption—to the imagined commonwealth of Utopia, where communal property, regulated labor, religious toleration...