伊拉斯谟：愚人颂 英文原版 Praise of Folly Desiderius Erasmus

基本信息

By (author) Desiderius Erasmus , Translated by Late Betty Radice , Introduction by A. H. T. Levi

Format Paperback | 256 pages

Dimensions 129 x 198 x 15mm | 191g

Publication date 01 Mar 1994

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Edition Statement Revised ed.

ISBN10 0140446087

ISBN13 9780140446081

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

当今之世，人们的耳朵格外敏感，实际上除了捧场话之外，别的全听不进去，这使我不胜惊异。只允许其他各行各业享有自身的乐趣，独不允许治学之域也可享有轻快的情怀，是多么不公平。生活比逻辑更重要，灵感比博学更重要，改观比争论更重要。

《愚人颂》的作者劝人们学“愚人”，任性而为，无所顾忌。因此，“愚人”一词成为快乐和幸福的同义词；而《愚人颂》，实际上也就是以人性的歌颂。《愚人颂》这部充满生气的作品经久不衰，至今仍给人以欢乐和启迪。这是伊拉斯谟给人类留下的一笔宝贵的遗产。

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual’s potential. Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, is Erasmus’s best-known work. Its dazzling mixture of fantasy and satire is narrated by a personification of Folly, dressed as a jester, who celebrates youth, pleasure, drunkenness and sexual desire, and goes on to lambast human pretensions, foibles and frailties, to mock theologians and monks and to praise the ‘folly’ of simple Christian piety. Erasmus’s wit, wordplay and wisdom made the book an instant success, but it also attracted what may have been sales-boosting criticism. The Letter to Maarten van Dorp, which is a defence of his ideas and methods, is also included.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

作者简介

德西德里乌斯·伊拉斯谟，（1466-1536）文艺复兴时期荷兰人文主义思想家和神学家，对改革者马丁·路德的思想有巨大的影响。《愚人颁》用诙谐风趣的口吻点评世间百态，在颠颠倒倒的智愚之辨中蕴藏了人生的哲理，切中时弊而耐人寻味，反映出作者独有的敏捷才思与欢快性情，与经院学究的沉闷气氛形成鲜明对照。

Desiderius Erasmus, born about 1469, went to school at Gouda, Utrecht and Deventer. He became the most famous humanist of the Northern Renaissance. Erasmus travelled widely, and his thought was particularly influential in England, where he became a close friend of Thomas More. He died in Basle in 1536.

Betty Radice became joint editor of the Penguin Classics in 1964, and translated from the Latin, Greek and Italian. She was an honorary fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford. She died in 1983.

A.H.T. Levi was Buchanan Professor of French Language and Literature at the University of St Andrews and has published extensively on the Renaissance.

书籍目录

Praise of Folly Preface to the 1993 Edition

Introduction

1. The importance of the Praise of Folly

2. Erasmus, scholastics, humanists and reformers

3. The Praise of Folly

Select Bibliography

Praise of Folly

Prefatory Letter

Moriae Encomium, that is, the Praise of Folly

Letter to Maarten Van Dorp, 1515

Index