Ship of Fools

Ship of fools is an allegory from The Republic by Plato that has long been a fixture in Western literature and art.

Ship of Fools may refer to:

  • Ship of Fools (satire), a 1494 satire by Sebastian Brant.
  • Ship of Fools (Porter novel), a 1962 novel by Katherine Anne Porter.
  • Ship of Fools (Stone novel), a 1997 Doctor Who spin-off novel by Dave Stone.
  • "Ship of Fools" (story), a 1999 short story by Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber.
  • Ship of Fools (Russo novel), a 2001 novel by Richard Paul Russo.
  • "Ship of Fools", a short story by Charles Stross from the 2002 collection Toast: And Other Rusted Futures.
  • The Ship of Fools (Spanish: La nave de los locos), a 1984 novel by Cristina Peri Rossi.
  • The Ship of Fools, a 2001 novel by Gregory Norminton.
  • Invoked by name in the lyrics of Starship's 1985 song "We Built This City".
  • #ShipOfFools (aka "#ClimateShipOfFools" or "#ClitanicDisaster"), Twitter nickname of the 2013-2014 "Spirit of Mawson" expedition stuck in the ice they claimed was disappearing.[1]
  1. ↑ applies to the "climate tourists", not the ship itself, as the captain warned them what's going to happen

 

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