The Fetish

Author : Massimo Fusillo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501312373

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The Fetish by Massimo Fusillo Pdf

Object fetishism is becoming a more and more pervasive phenomenon. Focusing on literature and the visual arts, including cinema, this book suggests a parallelism between fetishism and artistic creativity, based on a poetics of detail, which has been brilliantly exemplified by Flaubert's style. After exploring canonical accounts of fetishism (Marx, Freud, Benjamin), by combining a historicist approach with theoretical speculation, Massimo Fusillo identifies a few interpretive patterns of object fetishism, such as seduction (from Apollonius of Rhodes to Max Ophüls), memory activation (from Goethe to Louise Bourgeois and Pamuk), and the topos of the animation of the inanimate. Whereas all these patterns are characterized by a projection of emotional values onto objects, modernism highlights a more latent component of object fetishism: the fascination with the alterity of matter, variously inflected by Proust, Woolf, Joyce, Barnes, and Mann. The last turning point in Fusillo's analysis is postmodernism and its obsession with mass media icons-from DeLillo's maximalist frescos and Zadie Smith's reflections on autographs to Palahniuk's porn objects; from pop art to commodity sculpture.

Author : Colby Dickinson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030407759

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The Fetish of Theology by Colby Dickinson Pdf

By delving into the history of the fetish-object among both modern and contemporary commentators, this book highlights the fetish-object’s role as a philosophical and religious concept of the highest significance. Historically, fetishes are implicated in specific struggles for sovereign (political) and/or religious (hierarchical) power, with their interwoven symbols defined as the primary location for transcendence in our world. This book defines the political consequences of fetish-objects within a western cultural, and primarily theological context through a comparative approach of various literatures on fetish-objects—anthropological to the psychological, Marxist to the theological. It reconceives of fetishes as a form of resistance to oppressive structures, something which motivated Christians themselves historically, and shaped our western understanding of the sacraments far more than has been acknowledged. Taking up this conversation likewise holds forth the possibility of reconceptualizing how fetish-objects and sacramental presences both speak profoundly to our late-modern selves.

Author : William Pietz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226821818

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The Problem of the Fetish by William Pietz Pdf

"The Problem of the Fetish gathers William Pietz's innovative writing on the fetish object and the history of the "fetish" as a concept. Engaging extensively with historical documents, Pietz traces the genealogy of fetishism from encounters between European colonizers and African communities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the emerging social sciences. Discussing the role of fetishism in anthropology, political economy, psychiatry, and law, he analyzes the relationship between the fetish and value, violence, sacrifice, and debt. To accompany Pietz's seven essays, this long-awaited volume includes a foreword by Francesco Pellizzi, editor of RES, the journal in which several of the essays originally appeared, and it also includes an introduction by Stefanos Geroulanos and Ben Kafka, who provide an invaluable guide to Pietz's thought. This book will speak to Pietz's multidisciplinary readership, continuing his legacy of engaging with questions of material culture, object agency, merchant capitalism, and spiritual power, and introducing the work of a powerful theorist to new generations of scholars and thinkers"--

Author : J. Lorand Matory
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478002437

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The Fetish Revisited by J. Lorand Matory Pdf

Since the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the Guinea Coast, European social critics have invoked African gods as metaphors for misplaced value and agency, using the term “fetishism” chiefly to assert the irrationality of their fellow Europeans. Yet, as J. Lorand Matory demonstrates in The Fetish Revisited, Afro-Atlantic gods have a materially embodied social logic of their own, which is no less rational than the social theories of Marx and Freud. Drawing on thirty-six years of fieldwork in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, Matory casts an Afro-Atlantic eye on European theory to show how Marx’s and Freud’s conceptions of the fetish both illuminate and misrepresent Africa’s human-made gods. Through this analysis, the priests, practices, and spirited things of four major Afro-Atlantic religions simultaneously call attention to the culture-specific, materially conditioned, physically embodied, and indeed fetishistic nature of Marx’s and Freud’s theories themselves. Challenging long-held assumptions about the nature of gods and theories, Matory offers a novel perspective on the social roots of these tandem African and European understandings of collective action, while illuminating the relationship of European social theory to the racism suffered by Africans and assimilated Jews alike.

Author : Alistair Rolls
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401210263

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Paris and the Fetish by Alistair Rolls Pdf

Freud’s 1927 essay on the acquisition of a screen memory, or fetish, allows the subject to come to terms with the traumatic truth that, for him, dominates the present moment (in Freud’s scenario, the truth of mother’s sexuality) by maintaining, alongside and not in place of it, a parallel story of the past (the myth of the phallic mother). In this book Freud’s theory of the fetish, and in particular this way of allowing two opposed and ostensibly mutually exclusive narratives to co-exist, is used to provide a number of Parisian crime texts with radical new solutions. The fetishistic world-view of Charles Baudelaire’s poetics will be shown to provide the template for all overvalued instances of women passing by; notably, it will be seen how the famous assault on one of Christian Dior’s models as she displayed the New Look for the first time in Montmartre in 1947 depends on a fetish erected in the poem “À une passante”. The same Paris streets allow red herrings to be raised to the status of truth in novels by Fred Vargas, Léo Malet and Frédéric Cathala. In these texts the discovery of a primal scene allows doubt to be cast over authorial solutions and new murderers or victims to be found. In the case of Jean-Paul Sartre’s La Nausée, the fetishism at work is shown to have harboured a serial killer where no crime was previously considered to have taken place. In these analyses, fetishism is mapped onto prose poetics, intertextuality and deconstruction in order to challenge the way we read text. More importantly, rereading these texts allows us to see fetishism in a new light as a force for positive, creative acts of meaning-making. Alistair Rolls is Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the author of The Flight of the Angels: Intertextuality in Four Novels by Boris Vian (Rodopi, 1999) and, with Deborah Walker, of French and American Noir: Dark Crossings (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Author : R.H. Milligan
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : History
ISBN : 9785877154032

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The Fetish Folk Of West Africa by R.H. Milligan Pdf

Author : Joseph H. Campos,Katherine Brannum,Elena Mastors
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498595711

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The Fetish of Peace by Joseph H. Campos,Katherine Brannum,Elena Mastors Pdf

The Fetish of Peace: The Myth of Transformational Peace is a critical theoretical exploration of the ways in which the concept of peace is utilized and managed by the international arena and statist systems, distinctive in that the concept of peace is consistently employed in various performances by the state, and international systems, to address serious issues/problems in the international community. Despite all the rhetoric of peace and actions taken in the name of peace, we find ourselves within the same cycle of violence.

Author : Charles de Brosses,Rosalind C. Morris,Daniel H. Leonard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226464756

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The Returns of Fetishism by Charles de Brosses,Rosalind C. Morris,Daniel H. Leonard Pdf

"Fetishism (supposing that it existed)": a preface to the translation of Charles de Brosses's Transgression / Rosalind C. Morris -- Introduction: fetishism, figurism, and myths of enlightenment / Daniel H. Leonard -- A note on the translation / Daniel H. Leonard -- On the worship of fetish gods; or, a parallel of the ancient religion of Egypt with the present religion of Nigritia / Charles de Brosses ; translated by Daniel H. Leonard -- After De Brosses: fetishism, translation, comparativism, critique / Rosalind C. Morris -- A fetiche is a fetiche: no knowledge without difference of the word: rereading De Brosses -- Excursus: recontextualizing De Brosses, with Pietz in and out of Africa -- Re Kant and the good fetishists among us -- Hegel: back to the heart of darkness -- Fetishism against itself; or, Marx's two fetishisms -- The great fetish; or, the fetishism of the one -- Freud and the return to the dark continent: the other fetish -- Conjuncture: Freud and Marx, via Lacan -- Anthropology's fetishism: the custodianship of reality -- Fetishism reanimated: surrealism, ethnography, and the war against decay -- Deconstruction's fetish: undecidable, or the mark of Hegel -- Rehistoricizing generalized fetishism: the era of objects -- Anthropological redux: the reality of fetishism -- The fetish is dead, long live fetishism

Author : Zeynep Direk,Leonard Lawlor
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415235812

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Jacques Derrida by Zeynep Direk,Leonard Lawlor Pdf

These three volumes assemble the most important essays written on Jacques Derrida's philosophy since he became established in 1967. These volumes make well-known essays easily available and also present many essays never translated in English.

Author : Emily Apter
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501722691

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Feminizing the Fetish by Emily Apter Pdf

Shoes, gloves, umbrellas, cigars that are not just objects—the topic of fetishism seems both bizarre and inevitable. In this venturesome and provocative book, Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French culture. Analyzing works by authors in the naturalist and realist traditions as well as making use of documents from a contemporary medical archive, she considers fetishism as a cultural artifact and as a subgenre of realist fiction. Apter traces the web of connections among fin-de-siècle representations of perversion, the fiction of pathology, and the literary case history. She explores in particular the theme of "female fetishism" in the context of the feminine culture of mourning, collecting, and dressing.

Author : Ron Brokmeyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015062429702

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The Fetish of High Tech and Karl Marx's Unknown Mathematical Manuscripts by Ron Brokmeyer Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11189672

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All the Year Round by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015035141079

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All the Year Round by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081755849

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Ballou's Monthly Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172130858000

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Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine by Anonim Pdf