31 August 2012

On modern gods

"Whoever starts from economy as a non deductible fact, initial cause of everything and unique reality which cannot be questioned, transforms economy into its own product, in a thing, makes it an autonomous historical factor and falls into economy fetishism."

Karel Kosík, die Dialektik des Konkreten, Frankfurt, 1967, quoted in HR Jauss, Pour Une Esthétique de la réception, Gallimard Tel, Paris, 1978
(1974), p. 35 (my translation)