The Praise of Folly: Updated Edition

ISBN-13: 9780691165646 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str.

Desiderius Erasmus

Opis

Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this satiric celebration of pleasure, youth, and intoxication irreverently pokes fun at the pieties of theologians and the foibles that make us all human, while ultimately reaffirming the value of Christian ideals. No other book displays quite so completely the transition from the medieval to the modern world, and Erasmus's wit, wisdom, and critical spirit have lost none of their timeliness today.This Princeton Classics edition of The Praise of Folly features a new foreword by Anthony Grafton that provides an essential introduction to this iridescent and enduring masterpiece.

Recenzje

"Like all great minds Erasmus has the faculty of being perennially contemporary, and The Praise of Folly is a gay, witty revelation of the subtleties and intricacies of the scholarly mind of the Renaissance." - Edward Larocque Tinker, New York Times

O autorze

Erasmus Desiderius von Rotterdam zählt zu den bedeutendsten Repräsentanten des philosophischen Humanismus. Als Philologe und Kirchenkritiker bestimmte er wesentlich die Grundlagen der protestantischen Bewegung mit.