Abstract

It has been claimed that in postmodernity storytelling and reason are no longer the way to wisdom. The author argues here that there remains another path to wisdom, namely, that of the holy fool (mŌ-rosophia). This path retrieves the tradition of foolish wisdom from the Bible and Eastern religions, the negative theology of Nicholas of Cusa, and Erasmus's Laus stultitiae. It argues that the wisdom of the holy fool is characterized by irony, fantasy, and knowledge-illumined-by-love.

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