{"product_id":"the-aristos-by-john-fowles-9780099755319","title":"The Aristos","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A brave attempt to look at the world and to decide what an intelligent man should think about it'\u003c\/em\u003e - Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo years after \u003cem\u003eThe Collector\u003c\/em\u003e had brought him international recognition and a year before he published \u003cem\u003eThe Magus\u003c\/em\u003e, John Fowles set out his ideas on life in \u003cem\u003eThe Aristos\u003c\/em\u003e. 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 of its kind'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48228602282220,"sku":"9780099755319","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780099755319-the-aristos-1.jpg?v=1787606497","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-aristos-by-john-fowles-9780099755319","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}