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Author : Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Praise of Folly written by Desiderius Erasmus and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erasmus of Rotterdam
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291481060
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Let us praise Folly written by Erasmus of Rotterdam and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400866081
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Praise of Folly written by Desiderius Erasmus and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Erasmus
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714546208
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Praise of Folly written by Erasmus and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goddess Folly gives a speech, praising herself and explaining how much humanity benefits from her services, from politicians to philosophers, aristocrats, schoolteachers, poets, lawyers, theologians, monarchs and the clergy. At the same time, her discourse provides a satire of Erasmus's world, poking fun at false pedantry and the aberrations of Christianity. Woven throughout her monologue, a thread of irony calls into question the goddess's own words, in which ambiguities, allusions and interpretations collide in a way that makes Praise of Folly enduringly fascinating.
Author : A. Lima-de-Faria
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812810951
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Praise of Chromosome "folly" written by A. Lima-de-Faria and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When examined carefully at the molecular level, the chromosome turns out to have created its own private world full of tricks, back door exits and novel solutions. This OC follyOCO makes it an untamed innovator. Geneticists have been bewildered for decades. What kind of creature was actually the chromosome? Was it plastic, changing by innumerous rearrangements and mutations all the time; or was it a rigid structure which has preserved its basic organisation and functions since the dawn of the cell? It is this conflicting state that seems to be at the base of its OC follyOCO. Perplexed by this behavior, cell biologists have called it a junkyard and even the ultimate parasite. Moreover, the chromosome has been regarded as a passive cell organelle prone to random mutations and subjected to the mercy of selection.The latest molecular information discloses a radically different picture in which the chromosome appears as an independent molecular structure that follows its own path. It does not obey gravity, randomness, selection or magnetism.By anchoring the chromosome's contradictory behavior on molecular processes directed by atomic self-assembly, Lima-de-Faria expands a novel view of the chromosome with unexpected implications for genetics, evolution and physics.This timely book contains the latest information on the molecular organization of the chromosome. The information is original and is presented in an unorthodox way, while carefully chosen elucidating and attractive figures serve to add clarity to the subject treated. Thus, the book will add greatly to the general debate on the evolution of living organisms, and will be of particular interest to those in the biotechnological field.
Author : Charles Packard
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 149178556X
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book Folly on Folly written by Charles Packard and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Not for scholars, but for a new generation of readers unaware of Erasmus’s unique genius. An innovative, ingenious update.” — Kirkus Reviews. “Packard’s verse translation does what it sets out to do: enlivens what otherwise can be heavy going.” — Puckerbrush Review “Astoundingly clever.” — The Classical Outlook By his own account, Desiderius Erasmus, a Dutch monk and scholar, wrote his 1509 Latin prose masterpiece, The Praise of Folly, “in seven days, more or less” while a guest at the London home of his friend and fellow humanist Sir Thomas More. Friends with whom Erasmus shared his manuscript arranged its publication in Paris in 1511 in an unauthorized edition. Erasmus, surprised but pleased by the immediate popularity of the work, revised it seven times, with thirty-six editions appearing during his lifetime. Folly on Folly presents this classic transcript of the goddess Folly’s lecture delivered in a university hall to an audience of scholars. A persona invented by Erasmus, the goddess Folly has chosen herself as her subject. Her incongruous costume—a scholar’s robe with the belled hat of a jester—suggests (correctly) that her words will be a mix of the serious with the hilarious. Throughout the lecture, she makes her case that foolishness, not rational thought, benefits humankind more—with most of the human foibles she cites, whether secular or spiritual, remaining with us today. This version of The Praise of Folly, the first in verse, was written to commemorate the 500th anniversary of this enduring work’s creation.
Author : Charles Packard
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440123640
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Praise of Folly written by Charles Packard and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By his own account, Desiderius Erasmus, a Dutch monk and scholar, wrote his 1509 Latin prose masterpiece, The Praise of Folly, "in seven days, more or less" while a guest at the London home of his friend and fellow humanist, Sir Thomas More. Friends with whom Erasmus shared his manuscript arranged its publication in Paris in 1511 in an unauthorized edition. Erasmus, surprised but pleased by the immediate popularity of the work, revised it seven times, with thirty-six editions appearing during his lifetime. The Praise of Folly is a transcript of a lecture delivered in a university hall to an audience of scholars. The lecturer is the goddess Folly, a persona invented by Erasmus. Folly has chosen herself as her subject. Her incongruous costume, a scholar's robe but the belled hat of a jester, suggests (correctly) that her words will be a mix of the serious with the hilarious. Throughout the lecture, she makes her case that foolishness, not rational thought, benefits mankind more. Readers will note that most of the human foibles discussed by Folly remain with us today. This version of The Praise of Folly, the first in verse, was written to commemorate the 500th anniversary of this enduring work's creation.
Author : Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher : Alma Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781847493248
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Praise of Folly written by Desiderius Erasmus and published by Alma Classics. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goddess Folly gives a speech, praising herself and explaining how much humanity benefits from her services, from politicians to philosophers, aristocrats, schoolteachers, poets, lawyers, theologians, monarchs and the clergy. At the same time, her discourse provides a satire of Erasmus's world, poking fun at false pedantry and the aberrations of Christianity. Woven throughout her monologue, a thread of irony calls into question the goddess's own words, in which ambiguities, allusions and interpretations collide in a way that makes Praise of Folly enduringly fascinating.
Author : James Agee
Publisher : Collected Works of James Agee
ISBN 13 : 9781621900306
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men written by James Agee and published by Collected Works of James Agee. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An Annotated Edition of the James Agee--Walker Evans Classic, with Supplementary Manuscripts"--Cover
Author : Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781770831742
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (317 download)
Download or read book In Praise of Folly written by Desiderius Erasmus and published by . This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. In Praise of Folly is an essay written in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in 1511. The essay was inspired by De Triumpho Stultitiae, written by Italian humanist Faustino Perisauli, born at Tredozio, near Forl .Erasmus revised and extended the work, which he originally wrote in the space of a week while sojourning with Sir Thomas More at More's estate in Bucklersbury. In Praise of Folly is considered one of the most notable works of the Renaissance and one of the catalysts of the Protestant Reformation. It starts off with a satirical learned encomium after the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian, whose work Erasmus and Sir Thomas More had recently translated into Latin, a piece of virtuoso foolery; it then takes a darker tone in a series of orations, as Folly praises self-deception and madness and moves to a satirical examination of pious but superstitious abuses of Catholic doctrine and corrupt practices in parts of the Roman Catholic Church, to which Erasmus was ever faithful, and the folly of pedants (including Erasmus himself). Erasmus had recently returned disappointed from Rome, where he had turned down offers of advancement in the curia, and Folly increasingly takes on Erasmus' own chastising voice. The essay ends with a straightforward statement of Christian ideals. The essay is filled with classical allusions delivered in a style typical of the learned humanists of the Renaissance. Folly parades as a goddess, offspring of Pluto, the god of underworld and a nymph, Freshness. She was nursed by two other nymphs Inebriation and Ignorance, her faithful companions include Philautia (self-love), Kolakia (flattery), Lethe (oblivion), Misoponia (laziness), Hedone (pleasure), Anoia (madness), Tryphe (wantonness)and two gods Komos (intemperance) and Eegretos Hypnos (dead sleep). Folly praises herself endlessly, arguing that life would be dull and distasteful without her. Of earthly existence, Folly pompously states, "you'll find nothing frolic or fortunate that it owes not to me."
Author : Pavlovskis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004625305
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Praise of Folly written by Pavlovskis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R J Schoeck
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004615164
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Erasmus Grandescens: The Growth of a Humanist's Mind and Spirituality written by R J Schoeck and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1988 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 165 pages
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Author : Samuel Richardson (the Novelist.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
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Download or read book Pamela Or Virtue Rewarded written by Samuel Richardson (the Novelist.) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Richardson
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Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)
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Author : Samuel Richardson
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Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Pamela, Or Virtue Rewarded. [The Editor's Preface Signed: Thomas Archer.] written by Samuel Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Femi Oyebode
Publisher : RCPsych Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781908020420
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Madness at the Theatre written by Femi Oyebode and published by RCPsych Publications. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madness at the Theatre studies the theatrical representation of madness from the classical Greek period through to the 21st century. Professor Oyebode charts the portrayal of madness by the world's great playwrights across the centuries and argues that whereas acts of madness are described but unseen in Greek drama, Shakespeare brought these behaviours to centre stage. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries aberrant behaviour was portrayed in domestic settings by Ibsen - theatrical madness became a family drama. Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill drew on their own families for their explorations of madness and addiction. Pinter's masterful use of the ambiguity of language finds strong echoes in the psychiatric clinic. Soyinka emphasised the social context - the personal malady as reflection of a greater malaise in society. Finally, Sarah Kane created plays that were the physical embodiment of her inner world. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the language of drama, the depiction of mental illness, and in the wider place of madness as a concept within society.
