Beyond Fetishism And Other Excursions In Psychopragmatics

Download or read book Beyond Fetishism and Other Excursions in Psychopragmatics written by NA NA and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-24 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do the meanings of the innumerable fetish-signs appearing in recent artworks depend on the senders' intentions? Is the meaning of postfeminist glamour the celebration of femininity that its practitioners tout to counter ersatz macho posturing? To fully examine and clarify these and other issues involving gender, postcolonial, and artistic otherness, this book argues for a more adequate view of performativity than presently available from speech-act theory and certain strains of linguistic pragmatics. In drawing simultaneously on Charles Sander Peirce s pragmatic analysis of signs, Freudian and post-Freudian psychoanalytic inquiry, and radical feminist thought, the concern of Beyond Fetishism is with the ethical and aesthetic import of the psychopragmatics resulting from this intermingling.