Every Utopia That’s Fit To Print

The whole compass point of Utopia — at least accord to 16th century author Thomas More , who invented the terminus — is that all property is share . In that spirit , NYU culture medium bailiwick professor Stephen Duncombehas make the first completely open , digital written matter of the Word . Not only can you read and download the book in several file formats , including sound , but you could also comment it and create your own interpretation of Utopia on Duncombe’sWikitopia .

In his introduction to the work , Duncombe writes :

The Open Utopia is assemble from translations and editions of More ’s Utopia that are in the public knowledge base . The Preface , unveiling and footnote , written by me , are licence under Creative Commons , as are the few raw translations I commission especially for this intensity . The Creative Commons “ by - sa ” license allows user to freely use , study , copy , portion , and alter the work , as long as attribution is give and the content rest innocent to share . ( The complete ancestry of the Open Utopia can be found underSources . )

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The Open Utopia is a over variation , signify that I have included all of the letter of the alphabet and commendations , as well as the marginal notes , that were included in the first four printings of 1516 - 18 in which More himself had a helping hand . Non - scholarly editions of the book often omit this material , but I believe these letter and notes , written by the author and his booster among the European literati , are essential for understanding what More was doing in and with his Utopia . ( The first - clip lector , however , can well decamp ahead to Book I and Book II , backtrack through the letters More wrote to Peter Giles that lie on either side , and then wander at their leisure through the other letters , commendations and marginal greenback . ) I have also supplied a plaster bandage of contributors and voluminous footnotes of my own – not to bog the lecturer down with the intricacy of pedantic debates , but to give diachronic , literary and etymological context , providing the twenty - first - century reviewer with the information that More ’s hear 16th - century audience was likely to bang .

Thomas More ’s Utopia is more than the story of a far - off kingdom where there is no private property . It ’s a textual matter that apprise us how to draw close texts , be they literary or political , in an open personal manner : open to criticism , heart-to-heart to involvement , open to alteration , and receptive to re - creation . I ’ve done my best with the Open Utopia to carry this message and continue the tradition .

Onward to Utopia !

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