Playing the Fool: Subversive Laughter in Troubled Times - Ralph Lerner - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226473154 - December 1, 2009
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Playing the Fool: Subversive Laughter in Troubled Times

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Writers and thinkers throughout history have adopted the fool's approach. This title discusses six of them - Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Robert Burton, Pierre Bayle, Benjamin Franklin, and Edward Gibbon - to elucidate the strategies these men employed to persuade the heedless, the zealous, and the overly confident to pause and reconsider.

144 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released December 1, 2009
ISBN13 9780226473154
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 144
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 18 mm   ·   362 g

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