{"product_id":"the-philistine-controversy-isbn-9781859843741","title":"The Philistine Controversy","description":"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’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cb\u003eJohn Roberts \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and the Everyday\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Philistine Controversy\u003c\/i\u003e (with Dave Beech), \u003ci\u003ePhilosophizing the Everyday\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Necessity of Errors\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also a contributor to \u003ci\u003eRadical Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOxford Art Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHistorical Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThird Text\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCabinet\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. He lives in London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMalcolm Bull\u003c\/b\u003e is a theorist and art historian who teaches at Oxford. His books include \u003ci\u003eSeeing Things Hidden, The Mirror of the Gods\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAnti-Nietzsche\u003c\/i\u003e. He is on the editorial board of \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e and writes for the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEsther Leslie\u003c\/b\u003e is a lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, London. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism\u003c\/i\u003e and sits on the editorial boards of \u003ci\u003eHistorical Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRadical Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary History\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304080658661,"sku":"NP9781859843741","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781859843741.jpg?v=1767740948","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-philistine-controversy-isbn-9781859843741","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}