Abstract

The cover art for Utopies des Lumières is quite simple but very effective, just like the texts that the collection contains. The cover is mostly plain, but it includes a fragment of Thomas More’s map of the island of Utopia. Inside, six chapters of varying length and interest are divided into three parts dealing mostly with three questions that are also integral to the concerns of the genre of utopia as defined by More: Where is utopia? What does utopia bring? What can it accomplish?Indeed, part 1 consists of a discussion of the geographic question of utopia captivatingly prompted by the chapters by Peter Fitting and Kate Turner. Both chapters reinforce the role of imagination, but while Fitting’s...