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Ausgabe:

September/2013

Spalte:

909–922

Kategorie:

Bibelwissenschaft

Autor/Hrsg.:

Vincent L. Wimbush

Titel/Untertitel:

Signifying on the Fetish
Outlines for a New Critical Orientation

I

This essay makes the case for a new critical orientation that has implications within but also far beyond the discourses of religious and theological studies. Its methodological orientation is not the Enlightenment-originated historical criticism and its now increasingly razzle-dazzle methodological offshoots, but critical history,1a set of intellectual-political practices having to do with the ultimate politics of language, the fathoming and engagement of »me-­tadiscursive« practices and regimes,2 the representations, forms of expressivity (including artifacts), modes of performativity, the structures of social-cultural-psychological dynamics and power relations most often referred to with the freighted English ...


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