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The Problem of the Fetish - Softcover

Pietz, William

 
9780226821818: The Problem of the Fetish
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226821811 ISBN 13: 9780226821818
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2022

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226821811
ISBN 13 
9780226821818
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
266
Editor
Pellizzi Francesco, Geroulanos Stefanos, Kafka Ben