The Necessity of Errors by Roberts, John

The Necessity of Errors (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781844677399)

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The Necessity of Errors by Roberts, John

The Necessity of Errors

$34.95
The Necessity of Errors by Roberts, John

The Necessity of Errors

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: John Roberts
ISBN-10: 1844677397
ISBN-13: 9781844677399
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 10/24/2011
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d

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Choice 05/01/2012
By John Roberts
By John Roberts
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John Roberts is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton. His books include The Art of 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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