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

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

Book Overview

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"