The Philistine Controversy

The Philistine Controversy
Author: Dave Beech
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781859848425

Dave Beech and John Roberts develop what they call a 'counter-intuitive' notion of the philistine, with insights on cultural division and exclusion.

The Philistine Controversy

The Philistine Controversy
Author: Dave Beech
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2002-06-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781859843741

Dave Beech and John Roberts develop what they call a 'counter-intuitive' notion of the philistine, with insights on cultural division and exclusion.

Philistine

Philistine
Author: Ramon Bennett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1995
Genre: Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN: 9789659000012

The New Philistines

The New Philistines
Author: Sohrab Ahmari
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2016-10-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1785901591

Contemporary art is obsessed with the politics of identity. Visit any contemporary gallery, museum or theatre, and chances are the art on offer will be principally concerned with race, gender, sexuality, power and privilege. The quest for truth, freedom and the sacred has been thrust aside to make room for identity politics. Mystery, individuality and beauty are out; radical feminism, racial grievance and queer theory are in. The result is a drearily predictable culture and the narrowing of the space for creative self-expression and honest criticism. Sohrab Ahmari's book is a passionate cri de coeur against this state of affairs. The New Philistines takes readers deep inside a cultural scene where all manner of ugly, inept art is celebrated so long as it toes the ideological line, and where the artistic glories of the Western world are revised and disfigured to fit the rigid doctrines of identity politics. The degree of politicisation means that art no longer performs its historical function, as a mirror and repository of the human spirit - something that should alarm not just art lovers but anyone who cares about the future of liberal civilisation.

Anti-Nietzsche

Anti-Nietzsche
Author: Malcolm Bull
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1781683166

Nietzsche, the philosopher seemingly opposed to everyone, has met with remarkably little opposition himself. He remains what he wanted to be— the limit-philosopher of a modernity that never ends. In this provocative, sometimes disturbing book, Bull argues that merely to reject Nietzsche is not to escape his lure. He seduces by appealing to our desire for victory, our creativity, our humanity. Only by ‘reading like a loser’ and failing to live up to his ideals can we move beyond Nietzsche to a still more radical revaluation of all values—a subhumanism that expands the boundaries of society until we are left with less than nothing in common. Anti-Nietzsche is a subtle and subversive engagement with Nietzsche and his twentieth-century interpreters—Heidegger, Vattimo, Nancy, and Agamben. Written with economy and clarity, it shows how a politics of failure might change what it means to be human.

The Philistine

The Philistine
Author: Harry Persons Taber
Publisher:
Total Pages: 534
Release: 1913
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

The Philistine

The Philistine
Author: Leila Marshy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2018
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781988130705

The search for the father, the discovery of love -- a story of belonging