Abstract

AbstractRecent studies of the Renaissance utopia have focused on the importance of historicising utopia and in particular of considering the influence of contemporary developments in science or natural philosophy on the development of utopianism during the period. This article, having assessed the problem of defining the utopia, surveys some of the most prominent examples of the utopian mode of discourse from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (including those of More, Bacon, Campanella, Andreae and Cavendish). Considering scholarship which illuminates the relationship between utopian writings and the theories and practices of natural knowledge, it reflects on the utopia's abiding interest in spiritual improvement alongside social and scientific reform.

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