Lee Krähenbühl

Erasmus Among the Luminaries

Fiction

“Lauren Friesen mines a rich seam of intellectual history to deliver this gem of a conversation among world intellects, who gather in ‘A Room in the Great Beyond’ in hopes that the newly-arrived Dutch humanist Erasmus (1466–1535) can settle a controversy among them: ‘What is good?’ One part Waiting for Godot, one part No Exit, three parts philosophical fantasia, Friesen’s Erasmus should be required reading for every university survey of comparative thought in religion—which is how I’ll be employing it in the one I teach.”