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The Returns of Fetishism: Charles de Brosses and the Afterlives of an Idea
Charles de Brosses
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Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
For more than 250 years, Charles de Brosses's term fetishism has exerted great influence over our most ambitious thinkers. Used as an alternative to magic but nonetheless expressing the material force of magical thought, de Brosses's term has proved indispensable to thinkers as diverse as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Derrida. With this book, Daniel H. Leonard offers the first fully annotated English translation of the text that started it all: On the Worship of Fetish Gods, and Rosalind C. Morris offers incisive commentary that helps modern readers better understand it and its legacy. ... Read more
For more than 250 years, Charles de Brosses's term fetishism has exerted great influence over our most ambitious thinkers. Used as an alternative to magic but nonetheless expressing the material force of magical thought, de Brosses's term has proved indispensable to thinkers as diverse as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Derrida. With this book, Daniel H. Leonard offers the first fully annotated English translation of the text that started it all: On the Worship of Fetish Gods, and Rosalind C. Morris offers incisive commentary that helps modern readers better understand it and its legacy. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226464756
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V9780226464756
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About Charles de Brosses
Charles de Brosses (1709 1777) was a noted French thinker who wrote on topics ranging from philology to linguistics to history. Rosalind C. Morris is professor of anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of several books, including, most recently, Accounts and Drawings from Underground and That Which is Not Drawn. Daniel H. Leonard is assistant professor in ... Read more
Reviews for The Returns of Fetishism: Charles de Brosses and the Afterlives of an Idea
This work celebrates the long and 'happy productivity' of the concept of fetishism. According to Morris, 'de Brosses bequeathed to us what may be one of the most powerful conceptual operators of comparatavist critique of the modern era.' And it is this that makes de Brosses worth rediscovering today
fetishism stands for the persistence of the irrational in modern rationalism, at ... Read more
fetishism stands for the persistence of the irrational in modern rationalism, at ... Read more