The Praise of Folly - Softcover

Erasmus, Desiderius

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300023731 ISBN 13: 9780300023732

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1979

Synopsis

First published in Paris in 1511, The Praise of Folly has enjoyed enormous and highly controversial success from the author's lifetime down to our own day. The Folly has no rival, except perhaps Thomas More's Utopia, as the most intense and lively presentation of the literary, social, and theological aims and methods of Northern Humanism. Clarence H. Miller's highly praised translation of The Praise of Folly, based on the definitive Latin text, echoes Erasmus' own lively style while retaining the nuances of the original text. In his introduction, Miller places the work in the context of Erasmus as humanist and theologian. In a new afterword, William H. Gass playfully considers the meaning, or meanings, of folly and offers fresh insights into one of the great books of Western literature. Praise for the earlier edition:

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This Norton Critical Edition provides a wide selection of Erasmus's writings, translated from the Latin into fresh, modern, and witty English. Adams has made these selections to emphasize the humane, rather than the doctrinaire, side of the first and greatest humanist.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0300023731
• ISBN 13: 9780300023732
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 218