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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255308303321

Autore

Iacono Alfonso Maurizio

Titolo

The History and Theory of Fetishism / / by Alfonso Maurizio Iacono

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-54115-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Marx, Engels, and Marxisms, , 2524-7131

Altri autori (Persone)

TchernichovaViktoria

BoriaMonica

MacDonaldElizabeth

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

Political science

Political science - Philosophy

Social sciences - Philosophy

Sociology

World politics

Political Theory

Political Philosophy

Social Philosophy

Sociological Theory

Political History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One The Theoretical and Historical Assumptions Underpinning the Concept of Fetishism; Two Charles de Brosses's Th eory of Fetishism; Three The Concept of Fetishism as a Theoretical and Historical Problem; Four Marx's Theory of Fetishism; Five History, Nature, and System: Marx's Anthropological Conception; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The History and Theory of Fetishism, the expanded version of Iacono's enduring classic Teorie del feticismo and available for the first time in English, aims to provide the historical context necessary to understanding the concept of "fetishism" and offers an overview of the



ideologies, prejudices, and critical senses that shaped the Western observer's view of otherness and of his own world. Iacono examines the moment when the Western observer turned his colonizing and evangelizing gaze to continents such as Africa and the Americas, while attempting to simultaneously destabilize and look at his own world critically.