UID:
almahu_9949546554602882
Format:
1 online resource (272 p.) :
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7 halftones
ISBN:
9780226821801
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9783110993899
Content:
A groundbreaking account of the origins and history of the idea of fetishism. In recent decades, William Pietz's innovative history of the idea of the fetish has become a cult classic. Gathered here, for the first time, is his complete series of essays on fetishism, supplemented by three texts on Marx, blood sacrifice, and the money value of human life. Tracing the idea of the fetish from its origins in the Portuguese colonization of West Africa to its place in Enlightenment thought and beyond, Pietz reveals the violent emergence of a foundational concept for modern theories of value, belief, desire, and difference. This book cements Pietz's legacy of engaging questions about material culture, object agency, merchant capitalism, and spiritual power, and introduces a powerful theorist to a new generation of thinkers.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Foreword: William Pietz in the 1980s --
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An Introduction to the Sheer Incommensurable Togetherness of the Living Existence of the Personal Self and the Living Otherness of the Material World --
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Editorial Note --
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1. The Problem of the Fetish --
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2. The Origin of the Fetish --
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3. Bosman's Guinea and Enlightenment Discourse --
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4. Charles de Brosses and the Theory of Fetishism --
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5. Fetishism and Materialism: The Limits of Theory in Marx --
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6. The Spirit of Civilization: Blood Sacrifice and Monetary Debt --
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7. Death of the Deodand: Accursed Objects and the Money Value of Human Life --
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Acknowledgments --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993752
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EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110993738
In:
University of Chicago Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110766509
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226821795
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780226821801
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