The Praise of Folly and Other Writings - A Norton Critical Edition - A New Translation With Critical Commentary

Besides the celebrated Praise of Folly, Robert M. Adams has included the political "Complaint of Peace," the brutal antipapal satire "Julius Excluded from Heaven," two versions of Erasmus's important preface to the Latin translation of the New Testament, and a selection both serious and comic of his Colloquies and his letters.  Adams has made these selections to emphasize the humane, rather than the doctrinaire, side of the first and arguably greatest humanist.

Critical commentary is provided in essays by H. R. Trevor-Roper, R. S. Allen, J. Huizinga, Mikhail Bakhtin, Paul Oskar Kristeller, and Robert M. Adams.

Also included are a Chronology of Erasmus's life and a Selected Bibliography.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Robert M. Adams, Desiderius Erasmus, Erasmus von Rotterdam
• Assisted by: Robert M Adams (Editor), Robert M. Adams (Editor), Adams Robert M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Norton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1989
• EAN: 9780393957495
• ISBN: 978-0-393-95749-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Weight: 342 g
• Series: Norton Critical Editions; A Norton Critical Edition; Norton Critical Edition; Norton Critical Editions; Norton Critical Edition
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Latein, Essays, Philosophiegeschichte, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Philosophy, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Latin, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Renaissance, Literary essays