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Köp båda 2 för 687 krWhoever is interested in the material interweaving of concepts as well as in their slow metamorphosis from an uncertain thing a source of misunderstandings, approximations and clumsy identifications to a structuring concept of the human and social sciences will find in William Pietz's book not only a rigorously documented history of the term, but also, on the heuristic level, a basis for pursuing the many paths made available to our disciplines attached to the knowledge of the human being in society. -- Anne Lafont * History of European Ideas * "A remarkable contribution to the anthropological, ethnographical and political literature." * Contemporary Political Theory * Pietzs dazzling investigation of the fetish as an enigma of powera material artifact and a source of spiritual authority at oncebinds together colonial history, merchant capital, anthropological inquiry, and group psychology. His prescient framing of the concept as establishing social value and debt is indispensable reading in our era of disaster capitalism and commodity terrorism. -- David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania Assembling Pietzs early programmatic texts and later, lesser-known ones, this book discloses the momentum and trajectory of a body of work that changed how we think about the fetish concept and so much more. As the excellent introductory essays make clear, this influence is at once profound and enigmatic, a function of the elusive phenomenon called fetishism and of Pietzs rigorous thinking. The book is a giftmandatory reading for every critical thinker of the contemporary and its histories. -- Rosalind C. Morris, Columbia University In this groundbreaking work of interdisciplinary scholarship, Pietz provides an illuminating genealogy of fetishism, one that is also a fascinating theory of persistent misrecognitionof others and ourselves. Here, at last, the celebrated deployments of the fetish by Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Freud are put into philosophical and historical context. Fetishism was an essential ideologeme in the European colonializing of the world; this book is an essential tool in its conceptual decolonizing. -- Hal Foster, Princeton University
William Pietz is an intellectual historian and political activist. Francesco Pellizzi is the cofounder and editor of RES: Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics. Stefanos Geroulanos is professor of history at New York University and the author of several books, including (with Todd Meyers) The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe. Ben Kafka is a psychoanalyst and associate professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University. He is the author of The Demon of Writing.
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 Feitiaria in Christian Law: Witchcraft and Magic Feitio in Portuguese Guinea Fetisso: Origin of the Idea of the Fetish 3. Bosmans 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 Brossess 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 The Pious Use Value of Accursed Objects and the Fiscal Body of the Christian Sovereign The Incorporation of Capitalist Debt into the Sovereign Body The Abolition of Deodand: The Money Value of Human Life and Immortal Bodies without Sovereignty Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index