The Philistine Controversy

Published by Verso, London, 2002

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orig.wrappers Minor rubbing. VG. 22x15cm, iv,314 pp, PAPERBACK. "The philistine is defined as insensitive, uncouth, and brutal, especially in matters related to art .in fact, the concept of the philistine is peculiarly well placed, as the definitional other of art and aesthetics, to bring to bear on art and aesthetics the cost of their exclusions, blindnesses and anxieties. Indeed it could be said that the philistine is the spectre of art and 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 undertheorized 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" - Publisher's description. [Contents: The philistine controversy: introduction / Stewart Martin -- Pt. 1.: The new left review debate. Spectres of the aesthetic / Dave Beech and John Roberts -- The ecstasy of philistinism / Malcolm Bull -- Confessions of a new aesthete: a response.…

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Title
The Philistine Controversy
Author
Beech, Dave ; & Roberts, John ; editors:
Publisher
Verso, London
Publication year
2002
Condition
Minor rubbing. VG.
Binding
Soft cover

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