The Problem of the Fetish
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: William Pietz in the 1980s | Francesco Pellizzi -- An Introduction to the Sheer Incommensurable Togetherness of the Living Existence of the Personal Self and the Living Otherness of the Material World | Stefanos Geroulanos and Ben Kafka -- Editorial Note -- 1. The Prob...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Contributors: | ; ; |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
| Subito Delivery Service: | Order now. |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
Chicago
University of Chicago Press
2022
|
| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Fetishism
/ Historical materialism
/ Enlightenment
/ Colonialism
/ History 1600-1850
|
| Further subjects: | B
Fetishism-History
B Fetishism-Philosophy B Electronic books |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
|
| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: William Pietz in the 1980s | Francesco Pellizzi -- An Introduction to the Sheer Incommensurable Togetherness of the Living Existence of the Personal Self and the Living Otherness of the Material World | Stefanos Geroulanos and Ben Kafka -- Editorial Note -- 1. The Problem of the Fetish -- The Problem of the Fetish -- The Truth of the Fetish -- The Historical Field of the Fetish -- 2. The Origin of the Fetish -- Facticius in Christian Theology: Idolatry and Superstition -- Feitiçaria in Christian Law: Witchcraft and Magic -- Feitiço in Portuguese Guinea -- Fetisso: Origin of the Idea of the Fetish -- 3. Bosman's Guinea and Enlightenment Discourse -- The Discourse about Fetissos on the Guinea Coast -- African "Fetish Worship" and Mercantile Ideology -- 4. Charles de Brosses and the Theory of Fetishism -- De Brosses's Theory of Fetishism: The Hermeneutic of the Human Sciences and the Problem of Metaphor -- Anti-universalist Hermeneutics -- The Rhetoric of Fetish Worship in the French Enlightenment -- 5. Fetishism and Materialism: The Limits of Theory in Marx -- The Semiological Reading of Marx -- Marx and the Discourse about Fetishism -- Religious Fetishism and Civil Society: The Critique of Hegel -- Economic Fetishism: Marx on Capital -- 6. The Spirit of Civilization: Blood Sacrifice and Monetary Debt -- African Fetishism and the Spirit of Civilization -- Fetishism during the Colonial Conquest and the Problem of Human Sacrifice -- Fetishism under Colonial Law and the Problem of Fatal Accidents -- Debt, Fetishism, and Sacrifice as Concepts for Comparative Studies -- 7. Death of the Deodand: Accursed Objects and the Money Value of Human Life -- The Unfortunate Death of the Honourable William Huskisson -- Oliver Wendell Holmes on the Problem of the Deodand. |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (267 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0226821803 |