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The Philistine Controversy

by Dave Beech , John Roberts

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 1859843743
ISBN-13 9781859843741
Publisher Verso Books
Imprint Verso Books
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Jun 17th, 2002
Print length 320 Pages
Weight 429 grams
Dimensions 20.60 x 15.50 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification: History of art / art & design styles Philosophy: aesthetics Cultural studies
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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’.<br>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.

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