The Returns of Fetishism: Charles de Brosses and the Afterlives of an Idea

by Charles de Brosses, Rosalind C. Morris, Daniel H. Leonard

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:022646475X

ISBN13:9780226464756

Release Date:July 2017

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:480 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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History Religion Religion & Spirituality Social Science Social Sciences

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