Idiots: The History of the Homo Nullus (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781803096551)

Vendor: Leonhard Emmerling
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Format: Paperback
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Idiots: The History of the Homo Nullus

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Idiots: The History of the Homo Nullus

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Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Leonhard Emmerling
ISBN-10: 1803096551
ISBN-13: 9781803096551
Publisher: Seagull Books
Language: English
Published: 05/26/2026
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.01h x 5.91w x 1.01d
By Leonhard Emmerling
By Leonhard Emmerling
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Leonhard Emmerling has worked as an art historian in different capacities: as curator and director of art institutions in Germany and New Zealand; as teacher at art academies in Auckland, Düsseldorf, and Munich; and as advisor and director for the Goethe-Institut. His most recent publication is Aesthetics: What For?. Parnal Chirmuley is associate professor at the Centre of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.

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