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In "Praise of Folly", Erasmus observes all the nonsense of his time under a magnifying glass, criticizing the ancient authors themselves. Illustrations by Hans Holbein the younger taken from the Basel edition of 1676. Foreword by Veljko Korać.
The back cover is a facsimile of the cover "In Praise of Folly" from 1521 - the original is kept in the Zagreb University Library.
This book examines one particular form of democracy - consociational democracy, which means that it may be difficult, but not impossible, to achieve and maintain a stable democratic government in a plural society.
The book's starting point is that the Serbs were not only caught up in the Enlightenment later than its European foray in the 18th century, but they resisted it even when it caught up with them. In the Balkans, history followed different paths, had differ