NEW TITLE:
THE NECESSITY OF ERRORS
By JOHN ROBERTS
Published: 7 NOVEMBER 2011
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“A wide-ranging and original book. Robert’s restless curiosity brings into alignment an extraordinarily diverse range of material, and shows that it has its own unsuspected centre of gravity. An orrery of errors like no other” – MALCOLM BULL
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Truth and error are interdependent; claims to truth can be made only in the light of previous error. In THE NECESSITY OF ERRORS, John Roberts explores how, up to Hegel, emphasis was placed on error as something that dissolves truth and needs to be eradicated.
Drawing on the fragmented corpus of writing on error, from Locke to Luxemburg, Adorno to Vaneigem, and covering five key areas from philosophy to political praxis, this wide-ranging account explores how we learn from error, under what conditions, and with what means. Errors, Roberts finds, are productive, but not in any uniform sense or under all circumstances—a theory of errors needs a dialectics of error.
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Praise for THE INTANGIBILITIES OF FORM:
“An important and ambitious book that rewrites the history of twentieth-century art through a concern with work … This book provides a much-needed impetus to re-release the critical charge of avant-garde art from the straightjackets imposed by its current detractors, as well as by quite a few fans” – RADICAL PHILOSOPHY
“If there is any such thing as craft studies, this is a foundational text” – CRAFTS
“A profoundly original approach to the fate of the aesthetic and the avant-garde in contemporary society through the labour theory of culture... Over the last two decades, John Roberts has established himself as probably the most original Marxist critic of the contemporary visual arts around. ”– ANDREW HEMINGWAY, Professor in History of Art, University College London
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JOHN ROBERTS is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton. His books include THE ART 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.
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ISBN: 978 1 84467 739 9 / £16.99/$27.95/$35CAN / Paperback Original / 320 pages
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Also available by the same author:
THE INTANGIBILITIES OF FORM: SKILL AND DESKILLING IN ART AFTER THE READYMADE
ISBN: 978 1 84467 167 0/ $27.95/£16.99/$35CAN / Paperback / 256 pages
http://www.versobooks.com/books/268-the-intangibilities-of-form
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