Between Utopia and Dystopia

<I>Between Utopia and Dystopia</I> offers a new interpretation of Erasmian humanism. It argues that Erasmian humanism created the identity of the universal and critical intellectual but that this identity undermined the fundamental premises of humanist discourse. It closely reads several works of Erasmus and Thomas More employing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of intellectual history and adopting theoretical insights and methodological procedures from various disciplines.