Joachim Harst
Textspalten: Fetischismus als literarische Strategie.
Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2007. Neues Forum für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Band 34. First edition. 9783825353094 141 pages.
Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", shows moderate wear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright.
""Art is fetishism"—this accusation leveled against art that seemingly turns inward, allowing only for a quasi-religious veneration, must be pursued to its full logical conclusion. After all, fetishism is frequently employed as a polemical catchphrase all the more freely the vaguer its definition remains. Even the cultural studies disciplines currently attempting to analyze the concept have yet to provide a satisfactory definition of this polyvalent term. If, however, one places the "text" at the center of the inquiry, fetishism reveals itself as a literary concept that redefines not only the tension within language between psychoanalysis and economics but also the corporeality and eroticism of the word: Art is fetishism."