The Philistine Controversy

Dave Beech, John Roberts (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2002
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-85984-374-1 (ISBN)

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Conventionally, the Philistine is assumed to have no value for art and culture, but in this re-evaluation, the authors address the Philistine not as an empirical phenomenon - but as a relational category that operates between art and anti-art and aesthetics and anti-aesthetics.

In this fascinating study, Dave Beech and John Roberts develop what they call a 'counter-intuitive' notion of the philistine, claiming that what the philistine tells us about cultural division and exclusion is more persuasive than the theories of the popular and the 'otherly-cultured' in cultural studies and postmodernism. The 'counter-intuitive' philistine, they contest, returns the cultural debate to the problems of the persistence of power, privilege and symbolic violence. Asserting that the relations between power and art have been untheorized in recent studies, Beech and Roberts find their critical resources in the least likely place: not in the 'best of things', but in that which has 'no proper place'.
The book also includes several in-depth responses to the Beech and Roberts thesis by leading scholars in the field of cultural theory, together with the authors' replies to their critics.

John Roberts is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton. His books include The Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and the Everyday; The Philistine Controversy (with Dave Beech), Philosophizing the Everyday, and The Necessity of Errors. He is also a contributor to Radical Philosophy, Oxford Art Journal, Historical Materialism, Third Text, and Cabinet magazine. He lives in London. Malcolm Bull is a theorist and art historian who teaches at Oxford. His books include Seeing Things Hidden, The Mirror of the Gods, and Anti-Nietzsche. He is on the editorial board of New Left Review and writes for the London Review of Books. Esther Leslie is a lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, London. She is the author of Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism and sits on the editorial boards of Historical Materialism, Radical Philosophy and Revolutionary History.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.6.2002
Co-Autor	Andrew Bowie, Esther Leslie, Gail Day
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 206 mm
Gewicht	429 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-85984-374-3 / 1859843743
ISBN-13	978-1-85984-374-1 / 9781859843741
Zustand	Neuware