The returns of fetishism: Charles de Brosses and the afterlives of an idea

"Fetishism (supposing that it existed)": a preface to the translation of Charles de Brosses's Transgression / Rosalind C. Morris -- Introduction: fetishism, figurism, and myths of enlightenment / Daniel H. Leonard -- A note on the translation / Daniel H. Leonard -- On the worship of f...

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Authors: Brosses, Charles de 1709-1777 (Author) ; Morris, Rosalind C. (Author, Writer of preface)
Contributors: Leonard, Daniel H. (Translator)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Chicago London The University of Chicago Press 2017
In:Year: 2017
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Brosses, Charles de 1709-1777, Du culte des dieux fétiches / Translation / English language
B Religion / Fetish
B Brosses, Charles de 1709-1777 / Religion / Fetish
B Fetish / Brosses, Charles de 1709-1777
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
Further subjects:B Fetishism History
B Fetishes (Ceremonial objects)
Online Access: Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag)
Parallel Edition:Electronic
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Summary:"Fetishism (supposing that it existed)": a preface to the translation of Charles de Brosses's Transgression / Rosalind C. Morris -- Introduction: fetishism, figurism, and myths of enlightenment / Daniel H. Leonard -- A note on the translation / Daniel H. Leonard -- On the worship of fetish gods; or, a parallel of the ancient religion of Egypt with the present religion of Nigritia / Charles de Brosses ; translated by Daniel H. Leonard -- After De Brosses: fetishism, translation, comparativism, critique / Rosalind C. Morris -- A fetiche is a fetiche: no knowledge without difference of the word: rereading De Brosses -- Excursus: recontextualizing De Brosses, with Pietz in and out of Africa -- Re Kant and the good fetishists among us -- Hegel: back to the heart of darkness -- Fetishism against itself; or, Marx's two fetishisms -- The great fetish; or, the fetishism of the one -- Freud and the return to the dark continent: the other fetish -- Conjuncture: Freud and Marx, via Lacan -- Anthropology's fetishism: the custodianship of reality -- Fetishism reanimated: surrealism, ethnography, and the war against decay -- Deconstruction's fetish: undecidable, or the mark of Hegel -- Rehistoricizing generalized fetishism: the era of objects -- Anthropological redux: the reality of fetishism -- The fetish is dead, long live fetishism
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:022646475X