By Charles de Brosses,Rosalind C. Morris,Daniel H. Leonard
The manufactured from de Brosses’s autodidactic interest and idiosyncratic theories of language, On the Worship of Fetish Gods is an enigmatic textual content that's frequently tough for modern audiences to evaluate. In a radical creation to the textual content, Leonard situates de Brosses’s paintings in the cultural and highbrow milieu of its time. Then, Morris strains the concept that of fetishism via its awesome variations because it was once picked up and remodeled by way of the fields of philosophy, comparative faith, political economic system, psychoanalysis, and anthropology. finally, she breaks new flooring, getting into and past fresh reviews via thinkers akin to William Pietz, Hartmut Böhme, and Alfonso Iacono via illuminating new discussions on issues starting from translation matters to Africanity and the recent materialisms.
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