Utopia

About this book

A traveller arrives on an island with a different idea of justice and government. Elsewhere, another imagined society gives scientific investigation an almost sacred place.

This edition of Utopia brings Thomas More's famous account of an ideal commonwealth into conversation with Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and associated editorial material. The two visions differ in their assumptions about authority, knowledge and human happiness. Together they show how invented places can become instruments for questioning the society in which an author lives.