The Aristos (Personalia De El Aleph Ser.: Vol. 33)
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- Synopsis
- Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magus, John Fowles set out his ideas on life in The Aristos. The chief inspiration behind them was the fifth century BC philosopher Heraclitus. In the world he posited of constant and chaotic flux the supreme good was the Aristos, 'of a person or thing, the best or most excellent its kind'.'What I was really trying to define was an ideal of human freedom (the Aristos) in an unfree world,' wrote Fowles in 1965. He called a materialistic and over-conforming culture to reckoning with his views on a myriad of subjects - pleasure and pain, beauty and ugliness, Christianity, humanism, existentialism, socialism
- Copyright:
- 1980
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781409058458
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780099755319
- Publisher:
- Random House
- Date of Addition:
- 08/15/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Random House Group
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Philosophy
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.