Praise of Folly

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Praise of Folly

Wydawnictwo: penguin_classics

ISBN: 978-01-4044-608-1

ISBN bez myślników: 9780140446081

Typ okładki: Softcover

Liczba stron: 256

Data wydania: 2004-09-30

Język: angielski (Wielka Brytania)

Praise of Folly

Wydawnictwo: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4192-021-4

ISBN bez myślników: 9780141920214

Typ okładki: Softcover

Liczba stron: 256

Data wydania: 2004-09-30

Język: angielski (Wielka Brytania)

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Praise of Folly

Desiderius Erasmus

Pierwsze wydanie: 2004-09-30

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential. Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, is Erasmus's best-known work. Its dazzling mixture of fantasy and satire is narrated by a personification of Folly, dressed as a jester, who celebrates youth, pleasure, drunkenness and sexual desire, and goes on to lambast human pretensions, foibles and frailties, to mock theologians and monks and to praise the 'folly' of simple Christian piety. Erasmus's wit, wordplay and wisdom made the book an instant success, but it also attracted what may have been sales-boosting criticism. The Letter to Maarten van Dorp, which is a defence of his ideas and methods, is also included.