All That Glitters: Devaluing the Gold Standard in the Utopias of Thomas More, Francis Bacon, and Margaret Cavendish
Francis Bacon’s and Margaret Cavendish’s ideal societies unexpectedly follow Thomas More’s Utopia in eliminating the exchange value of gold and replacing it with a knowledge economy. Bacon’s New Atlantis (1627) and Cavendish’s Blazing World (1666) similarly pursue new "light" and shun self...
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| Language: | English |
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Iter Press
2018
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Renaissance and reformation
Year: 2018, Volume: 41, Issue: 3, Pages: 137-164 |
| RelBib Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history VA Philosophy |
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