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The Returns of Fetishism: Charles de Brosses and the Afterlives of an Idea
De Brosses, Charles, Morris, Rosalind C., Leonard, Daniel H.
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Hardcover. 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. The product of ... 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. The product of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226464619
SKU
V9780226464619
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About De Brosses, Charles, Morris, Rosalind C., Leonard, Daniel H.
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
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