The fetish revisited: Marx, Freud, and the gods black people make

A note on orthography -- Part I. The factory, the coat, the piano,and the "Negro slave": on the Afro-Atlantic sources of Marx's fetish -- The Afro-Atlantic context of historical materialism -- The "Negro slave" in Marx's labor theory of value -- Marx's fetishizatio...

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Main Author: Matory, James Lorand 1961- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Durham London Duke University Press 2018
In:Year: 2018
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Marx, Karl 1818-1883 / Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939 / Fetish
B Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939 / Marx, Karl 1818-1883 / Africa / Fetish / Religion
Further subjects:B Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939)
B Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
B Africa
B Fetishism
B Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939
B Marx, Karl 1818-1883
B Africa Religion
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Summary:A note on orthography -- Part I. The factory, the coat, the piano,and the "Negro slave": on the Afro-Atlantic sources of Marx's fetish -- The Afro-Atlantic context of historical materialism -- The "Negro slave" in Marx's labor theory of value -- Marx's fetishization of people and things -- Conclusion to part I -- Part II. The acropolis, the couch, the fur hat, and the "savage": on Freud's ambivalent fetish -- The fetishes that assimilated Jewish men make -- The fetish as an architecture of solidarity and conflict -- The castrator and the castrated in the fetishes of psychoanalysis -- Conclusion to part II -- Pots, packets, beads, and foreigners: the making and the meaning of the real-life "fetish" -- The contrary ontologies of two revolutions -- Commodities and gods -- The madeness of gods and other people -- Conclusion to part III -- Conclusion: Eshu's hat, or an Afro-Atlantic theory of theory
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1478000759