Abstract

SEVILLA GODINEZ, Héctor. Sublime Craziness. Traces of Nihilism and Critical Spirituality in Erasmus’ Stultitiae Laus. Rev. filos.open insight [online]. 2017, vol.8, n.13, pp.45-70. ISSN 2395-8936.

The article inquires into the presence of an experience of vacuity in Erasmus of Rotterdam’s The Praise of Folly (Stultitiae Laus); such an experience is derived from the rejection of society’s conventional postures and the denouncement of the inappropriate religious and clerical testimony, sustains the prelude of an individual positioning that directs the option through cynical insanity or mystical craziness. Upon boarding the erasmian intention implied in the content of his works, a contribution is undergone about the essence of craziness that is alluded in it. Likewise, irony is pointed out as a literary tool, also the presence of a nihilistic spirituality, which is a product of the fearless option for the sublime folly of mysticism, is forewarned. The methodological approach will be the philosophical hermeneutic focused on the texts.

Keywords : Craziness; Criticism; Emptiness; Erasmus; Spirituality.