2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Dutch humanist and theologian who wrote Praise of Folly, edited the Greek New Testament, and corresponded with virtually every major intellectual in Europe — who satirized Church corruption but refused to join Luther, becoming the model of the irenic, cosmopolitan intellectual who belongs to no party.
American novelist and humanist whose Slaughterhouse-Five — based on his experience surviving the Dresden firebombing as a POW — combined science fiction with anti-war satire and an unflinching examination of time, free will, and mass death.