{"product_id":"9781803096551","title":"Idiots : The History of the Homo Nullus (The German List)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a world obsessed with expertise and control, the figure of the idiot illuminates deeper truths about society. Dostoevsky and Nietzsche wrote about him; Dadaists and punks idolized him; artists like Warhol and Beuys made him their icon. From holy fool to punk rebel, the idiot—a figure that traces its roots back to the Greek idiotes, a person who was alienated from public life—has always challenged society’s norms from the margins. Far from a simple madman, the idiot is a powerful subversive, a person who disregards norms and finds profound insight in a state of unmediated inspiration. Using a cross-disciplinary approach bridging literature, religion, art, and philosophy, this volume traces a rich journey up to the present, where the idiot reemerges in a dramatic twist: a public figure who inverts social norms, confounds the boundary between private and public, and declares a new, paradoxical view of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books London Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48522564174059,"sku":"EB_PH0700_D08-06_SIMS","price":42.67,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781803096551","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}