{"product_id":"idiots-1","title":"Idiots","description":"In 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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57507740352885,"sku":"9781803096261","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/idiots-1","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}