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000351531 1001_ $$aLerner, Ralph.
000351531 24510 $$aPlaying the fool$$h[electronic resource] :$$bsubversive laughter in troubled times /$$cRalph Lerner.
000351531 260__ $$aChicago :$$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$$cc2009.
000351531 300__ $$a1 online resource (ix, 134 p.)
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000351531 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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000351531 520__ $$aThe role of the fool is to provoke the powerful to question their convictions, preferably while avoiding a beating. Fools accomplish this not by hectoring their audience, but by broaching sensitive topics indirectly, often disguising their message in a joke or a tale. Writers and thinkers throughout history have adopted the fool's approach, and here Ralph Lerner turns to six of them--Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Robert Burton, Pierre Bayle, Benjamin Franklin, and Edward Gibbon--to elucidate the strategies these men employed to persuade the heedless, the zealous, and the overly confident to pause.
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000351531 60010 $$aBacon, Francis,$$d1561-1626$$xLanguage.
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000351531 650_0 $$aPolitical satire$$xHistory and criticism.
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