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N2  - The role of the fool is to provoke the powerful to question their convictions, preferably while avoiding a beating. Fools accomplish this not by hectoring their audience, but by broaching sensitive topics indirectly, often disguising their message in a joke or a tale. Writers and thinkers throughout history have adopted the fool's approach, and here Ralph Lerner turns to 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.
AB  - The role of the fool is to provoke the powerful to question their convictions, preferably while avoiding a beating. Fools accomplish this not by hectoring their audience, but by broaching sensitive topics indirectly, often disguising their message in a joke or a tale. Writers and thinkers throughout history have adopted the fool's approach, and here Ralph Lerner turns to 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.
T1  - Playing the foolsubversive laughter in troubled times /
DA  - c2009.
CY  - Chicago :
AU  - Lerner, Ralph.
CN  - Proquest Ebook Central
CN  - PN6149.P64
PB  - University of Chicago Press,
PP  - Chicago :
PY  - c2009.
N1  - Description based on print version record.
ID  - 351531
KW  - Political satire
KW  - Fools and jesters
KW  - Laughter
KW  - Political science
SN  - 9780226473178 (electronic bk.)
TI  - Playing the foolsubversive laughter in troubled times /
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