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Continue to ChatErasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether. - J. M. Coetzee from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/erasmus-dramatizes-a-well-established-political-position-that-of-the-fool-who-claims-license-to-criticize-all/page/2