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Princeton University Press The Forms of Utopia: Paradox, Labyrinth, and Recursion in the Renaissance

Name: The Forms of Utopia: Paradox, Labyrinth, and Recursion in the Renaissance
Brand: Princeton University Press
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A new analysis of utopia as a literary form, with recursive patterns that draw from early modern logic and mathematics In this ingenious and provocative book, Jenny Mann asks us to shift our understanding of utopia from its politics to its form. Beginning with Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), one of the most influential books of all time, Mann shows that utopia’s recursive patterns—its frames, folds, knots, meanders, and turns—enable the perpetual invention of limitless artificial worlds. Mann demonstrates how paradox, labyrinth, and recursion, in the hands of More, William Shakespeare, and Margaret Cavendish, become techniques of utopian invention. Drawing on concepts from logic and mathematics, including the Liar’s Paradox and the conundrum of squaring the circle, to make sense of utopia’s impossible geometries, she offers fresh and illuminating considerations of More’s Utopia, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and Cavendish’s The Blazing World, each representing a different form of utopia. These sections are framed by interludes that feature an artwork or artifact—an intarsia-paneled door, a turf maze, a silver coin—that materially expresses an element of utopia’s puzzling structure. To study utopia, she argues, we must enter its structure and follow the disorienting paths. Utopia works by transforming enclosed spaces—a book, a play—into sites of infinite possibility.

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Brand: Princeton University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0691283664
Category: Books > Subjects > Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences > Philosophy
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 27 October 2026
Listed Since: 30 March 2026

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