Praise of Folly (eBook)

Updated Edition

Desiderius Erasmus (Autor)

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2015 | Updated Edition
224 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6608-3 (ISBN)

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Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University.

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.6.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Classics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Classics
• Vorwort: Anthony Grafton
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: absurdity • adage • adagia • Aeneid • Aldus Manutius • allegory of the cave • apocolocyntosis • Apotheosis • Apuleius • Archilochus • Armor of God • augury • Batrachomyomachia • Carthusians • Censure • Christianity • classical latin • Classicism • colloquies • Cornell University • corocotta • Courtier • Croesus • damnation • declamation • Decorum • Democritus • despotism • ecclesiastes • Eloquence • encomium • English Renaissance • Epistle • Epithet • eulogy • Exordium (rhetoric) • flattery • foolishness • fornication • Fortunate Isles • friar • Gesta Romanorum • glaucon • grammar • Humour • Iapetus (mythology) • impiety • Irony • Irrationality • Isocrates • Joke • Laertes • laughter • Literature • Lorenzo Valla • Man alone (stock character) • Menippus • Momus • Mrs. • Muse • Nickname • of education • Old Comedy • Order of Saint Benedict • Panegyric • Parody • Peroration • Persius • Philosopher • Philosophy • piety • pity • plagiarism • Plutus • Poetry • Polonius • Priapus • Prose • proverb • Psalms • Pseudonym • Quintilian • Religion • rhetoric • Satire • SCHOLASTICISM • self-love • Silenus • Suggestion • sycophant • syllogism • Theft • Themistocles • Theology • Theophrastus • The Other Hand • The Praise of Folly • Thersites • Thrasymachus • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6608-1 / 1400866081
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6608-3 / 9781400866083