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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825910803321

Autore

Böhme Hartmut

Titolo

Fetishism and culture : a different theory of modernity / / Hartmut Böhme ; translated by Anna Galt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-11-037800-0

3-11-030345-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Fetishism

Europe Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Translator's Note / Galt, Anna -- Introduction -- I. Now That's Some Thing - An Introduction to the World of Things -- II. Fetishism in Religion and Ethnography -- III. Commodity Fetishism -- IV. Fetishism, Sexuality and Psychoanalysis -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Hartmut Böhme's study of fetishism spans all the way from Christian image magic in the Middle Ages to fetishistic practices in fashion, advertising, sport and popular culture today. In it he provides a thorough exploration of religion, magic, idolatry, sexuality and consumption, charting the mental, scientific and artistic processes through which fetishism became a central category in European culture's account of itself.