Da memória da utopia: a função autonoética dos programas comemorativos dos 500 anos da publicação de Utopia, de Thomas More, no Reino Unido, França e Portugal

Abstract

In 2016, the commemorative programmes of the 500th anniversary of the publication of Thomas Mores Utopia celebrated not only the life of the English humanist but also his work. It is still to be understood, however, if the memory of the past was summoned to make us better understand the past (intransitive memory) or to make us better understand the present and its future possibilities (transitive memory). This study, made under the theoretical umbrella of Memory Studies, examines the commemorative programmes held in the UK, France, and Portugal, underlining the significance of Mores work for the definition of the diachronic identity of those nations.