ISBN:
9780226821801
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (267 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Pietz, William, 1951 - The problem of the fetish
DDC:
202.1
Keywords:
Fetishism-Philosophy
;
Fetishism-History
;
Electronic books
;
Fetischismus
;
Historischer Materialismus
;
Aufklärung
;
Kolonialismus
;
Geschichte 1600-1850
Abstract:
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.
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