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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.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780226473154
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 144
  • Udgivet:
  • 1. december 2009
  • Størrelse:
  • 152x229x18 mm.
  • Ukendt - mangler pt..
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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.

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